학술논문

Nonlinear Effects in NOMA-OFDM Systems: Analytical Signal Characterization and Receiver Design
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on. 72(3):3739-3750 Mar, 2023
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Nonlinear distortion
Receivers
Interference cancellation
NOMA
Time-domain analysis
Bit error rate
Downlink
BER
Gaussian signals
high-power amplifiers (HPA)
intermodulation analysis
non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
nonlinear distortion
OFDM
Language
ISSN
0018-9545
1939-9359
Abstract
Non orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is being considered a key technology for future communications. In this paper, we provide an analytical characterization of downlink NOMA orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) in presence of nonlinear effects associated to a high power amplifier (HPA) modeled as a memoryless polynomial. Taking advantage of the Bussgang approximation and intermodulation products (IMPs) tools, we present a generalized framework to characterize the nonlinearity for digital NOMA-OFDM systems with Nyquist-sampled signals and oversampled signals. An accurate estimation for the power spectral density (PSD) and signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) for each user is developed and discussed. Moreover, we introduce a joint iterative approach for distortion compensation and interference cancellation suitable for scenarios with strong nonlinear effects. Our performance results indicate that the proposed technique allows significant bit error rate (BER) and complexity improvements, when compared to conventional schemes.