Optimal Rate and Power Allocation for Layered Transmission with Superposition Coding

Author(s):  
Farzad Etemadi ◽  
Hamid Jafarkhani
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 1550061
Author(s):  
Mateus de Paula Marques ◽  
Taufik Abrão

This paper addresses the optimization problem on subcarrier and power allocation of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system under spectral efficiency (SE) metric when deploying superposition coding (SC) transmission strategy. An algorithm with polynomial time complexity, of the order of (UN log 2(N)) has been proposed for sub-optimal SE maximization. Results indicate that the system SE increases with the use of SC technique. Besides, the throughput gain with SC adoption increases when the number of users (U) approaches the number of subcarriers (N) available in the system.


Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) scheme is one of the emerging radio access techniques to enhance the system performance for 5G networks. The powerdomain NOMA is one of the basic NOMA schemes that perform superposition coding (SC) at the transmitter and successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receiver. Power Allocation (PA) plays a significant role in attaining successful SIC and high system throughput. This work is focusing on power allocation to maximize the throughput for NOMA-based 5G network. The objective functions, algorithms, constraints and limitations of the system design in power allocation techniques for NOMA-based 5G networks in terms of throughput analysis are extensively investigated and reported.


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