The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) allows one subcarrier to be allocated to more than one user at the same time in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. NOMA is a promising technique to provide high throughput due to frequency reuse within a cell. In this paper, a novel interference cancellation (IC) technique is proposed for asynchronous NOMA systems. The proposed IC technique exploits a triangular pattern to perform the IC from all interfering users for the desired user. The bit error rate (BER) and capacity performance analysis of an uplink NOMA system with the proposed IC technique is presented, along with the comparison to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems. The numerical and simulation results show that the NOMA with the proposed asynchronous IC technique outperforms the OFDMA. It is also shown that employing iterative IC provides significant performance gain for NOMA and the number of required iterations depends on the modulation level and the detection method. With hard-decision, two iterations are sufficient, however with soft-decision, two iterations are enough only for low modulation level, and more iterations are desirable for high modulation level.
This paper proposes two novel packet scheduling schemes, called as throughput enhanced scheduling (TES) and TES plus (TES+), for future ultra-dense networks. These schemes introduce two novel parameters to the scheduling decision making and reformulate the parameters used by the state-of-the-art schemes. The aim is to have a more balanced weight distribution between delay and throughput-related parameters at scheduling decisions. Also include a new telecommunications related parameter into scheduling decision making that has not been studied by popular schedulers. The performance of novel schemes is compared with well-known schemes-proportional fairness (PF), exponential/proportional fairness (EXP/PF), and M-LWDF. For performance evaluation, five performance metrics-average spectral efficiency and delay, quality of service (QoS) violation ratio, jitter, and Jain's fairness index-are investigated. The simulation results show that proposed schemes can outperform all the compared scheduling schemes.
KEYWORDS5G networks, EXP/PF, M-LWDF, packet scheduling, real-time traffic, ultra-dense networks Int J Commun Syst. 2020;33:e4229.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dac
Wireless networks are today employed as complementary access technology, implemented on the last hop towards the Internet end-user. The shared media that wireless deployments provide and which is relevant to interconnect multiple users has a limited technical design, as only one device can be served per unit of time, design aspect that limits the potential applicability of wireless in dense environments. This paper proposes and evaluates a novel MAC-layer mechanism that extends current wireless networks with the possibility to perform downstream transmission to multiple devices within a single transmission time-frame, resulting in improved fairness for all devices. The mechanism, which is software-defined, is backward-compatible with current wireless standards and does not require any hardware changes. The solution has been validated in a realistic testbed, and the paper provides details concerning the computational aspects of our solution; a description of the implementation; and results extracted under different realistic scenarios in terms of throughput, packet loss, as well as jitter.Index Terms-OFDMA, resource management, user-centric networking, wireless.
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