The NOMA (Non-Orthogonal-Multiple-Access) is a multiple access technique planned to be used for 5G cellular wireless network (Release 16 5G phase 2). It aims to significantly improve the spectral efficiency of mobile communication networks. As a result, it will meet challenging requirements for 5G wireless communications, such as high spectral efficiency and massive connectivity.
The main function of NOMA is to serve multiple UEs (User Equipments) using single 5G-NB (Node B or Base Station) and serves multiple users on same frequency resources.
Comparison with OFDMA
In Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and single-carrier (SC)-FDMA are adopted as an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) approach. Such an orthogonal design has the benefit that there is no mutual interference among users. Therefore, good system-level performance can be achieved even with simplified receivers. However, none of these techniques can meet the high demands of future radio access systems such as 5G.
In OFDMA, different UE signals are transmitted at different frequency resources. However, in the case of NOMA, different UE signals are transmitted at the same frequency but at different power levels depending upon the position of UE in the cell.
Basic function of NOMA
Figure below illustrates downlink NOMA for the case of one BS (base station) and two UE (user equipment). In downlink NOMA, the transmit signal from the BS and the received signal at both UE receivers is composed of a superposition of the transmit signals of both UEs.
Thus, multi-user signal separation needs to be implemented at the UE side. In this way, each UE can retrieve its signal and decode its own data. This can be achieved by Successive Interference Cancellation called SIC.
The basic functionality of NOMA is shown in the figure below when receiver is employed with SIC. One BS and two UEs are consisted in this figure. In this case, UE1 is situated near BS and UE2 is far from BS, called cell-edge user, in DL transmission.
Firstly, the cell edge user (CEU) data has been decoded by the UE near the BS. Then its corresponding user data has been decoded.
The key to NOMA is to have signals that possess significant differences in power levels. In this case, it is then possible to totally isolate the high level signal at the receiver and then cancel it out to leave only the low level signal. In this way, NOMA exploits the path loss differences amongst users.
The channel gain consisting of elements including the path-loss and received signal to noise ratio difference between users is translated into multiplexing gains. Although power sharing reduces the power allocated to each user, both users – those with high channel gains and those with low channel gains benefit by being scheduled more frequently and by being assigned more bandwidth. This means that NOMA enables system capacity and fairness of allocations to be improved for all users.
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