Special Issue - 2017 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)

ISSN: 2278-0181
NCICCNDA - 2017 Conference Proceedings

Performance Analysis of NOMA and TDMA

under Channel State Information
Vanita Kaba Dr. Rajendra Patil
Asst. Professor, ECE Department, Professor, ECE Department,
GECW kalaburagi, India GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology
for Women Mysore, India

Abstract— In the wireless communication services reliability and II. RELATED WORKS
availability of real time communication are the important Towards future 5G communication systems, some
factors. In this scenario a popular technique called multiple candidate access schemes are under investigation in recent
access techniques are used. A promising multi-client access research activities, e.g., sparse code multiple access (SCMA)
scheme, nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with successive
and NOMA. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
interference cancellation (SIC), is presently concentrated for 5G
systems. NOMA’s execution highly depends on the power split allows allocating one carrier to more than one user at the
among the data flows and the associated power allocation (PA) same time in one cell. It is a promising technology to provide
problem. In this paper, it deals optimized power and channel high throughput due to carrier reuse within a cell.
allocation in NOMA and investigates PA techniques that ensure Superposition coding (SC) is an effective technique to
fairness for the downlink clients under instantaneous channel increase capacity in the NOMA system. When SC is applied,
state information (CSI) at the transmitter and average CSI. multiple users’ signals are multiplexed over the same
subcarrier with different received power at the base station.
Keywords— 5G, fairness, NOMA, outage probability It deals with the capacity region for NOMA and by assuming
I. INTRODUCTION predefined client groups for each sub channel, a heuristic
5G provide a new frequency bands along with the wider algorithm for NOMA power allocation in downlink has been
spectral bandwidth per frequency channel. To increase the proposed and system-level simulations have been conducted.
spectral efficiency various multiple access technique are used It addresses various implementation issues of NOMA. It
in wireless system. Multiple access techniques are the way to considered sum-rate utility maximization problem for
access a single channel by multiple users that is how the same dynamic NOMA resource allocation and the outage execution
of NOMA has been evaluated. The fairness in NOMA can be
bandwidth channel is used by the different number of users.
improved via using and adapting the so-called power
Non-orthogonal access code-division multiple accesses
allocation coefficients. For uplink NOMA, it provides a
(CDMA) based on direct sequence-code division multiple
suboptimal algorithm to solve an uplink scheduling problem
access (DS-CDMA) is widely used in the 3rd generation
with fixed transmission power. In this work, a weighted
mobile communication system. In the 4th generation (4G) multi-client scheduling scheme is proposed to balance the
mobile communication systems such as LTE and LTE- total throughput and the cell-edge client throughput. It
Advanced adopt orthogonal multiple access based on
proposes a greedy-based algorithm to improve the throughput
orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) in the
in uplink NOMA and evaluated client grouping/pairing
downlink and signal carrier (SC)-FDMA in the uplink[1]. It is
strategies in NOMA. It has been shown that, from the outage
a reasonable choice for achieving good system-level
probability perspective, it is preferable to multiple clients of
throughput execution to orthogonal access in packet-domain large gain difference on the same subcarrier.
services. It addresses subcarrier allocation and power assignment in
downlink NOMA, with the objective of balancing the
However, considering the future radio access in the
throughout with the number of scheduled clients the solution
2020s, further enhancement to achieve significant system
approach uses matching theory. In, a monotonic optimization
throughput and client fairness has become one of the key
method is developed for NOMA subcarrier and power
issues in handling this explosive data traffic increase in 5th allocation. The method potentially approaches the global
generation (5G) mobile communication systems and need optimum, at the cost of high complexity in the number of
for enhanced delay-sensitive high-volume services. Non-
clients per subcarrier.
orthogonal multiple accesses (NOMA) with successive
interference cancellation (SIC) is considered to be a
Apart from investigation of NOMA execution in cellular
promising technology that improves the sum throughput [2]. networks, from an optimization perspective, the complexity
Because the communication resources (time and frequency) and tractability analysis of NOMA resource allocation is of
in a NOMA system are shared by all the users, the sum
significance. Here, tractability for an optimization problem
throughput can be enhanced over what is possible, compared
refers to whether or not any polynomial-time algorithm can
with orthogonal multiple access (OMA)[4].
be expected to find the global optimum. Tractability results
for resource allocation in OMA and interference channels

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ISSN: 2278-0181
NCICCNDA - 2017 Conference Proceedings

have been investigated in a few existing works, e.g., for assuming to have a low-level margin for signal to noise ratio
OFDMA, for SC-FDMA, and for interference channel. .Comparative study of the outage probability between NOMA
and TDMA under average CSI information is performed. In,
III. METHODOLOGY TDMA shares a single carrier frequency with several users
In order to support higher throughput and massive and where each user makes use of non-overlapping time slots.
heterogeneous connectivity for 5G networks, we can adopt
novel modulations NOMA with effective interference IV. NUMERICAL RESULTS
mitigation and signal detection methods. Power-domain It evaluates the performance of the developed
NOMA is considered as a promising MA scheme for 5G algorithms by solving 1000 randomly generated problems for
networks. In spite of the existing literature of execution different parameter configurations.
evaluation for NOMA, there is lack of a systematic approach
for NOMA resource allocation from a mathematical
optimization point of view. The existing resource allocation
approaches for NOMA are typically carried out with fixed
power allocation, predefined client set for sub channels, or
parameter tuning to improve execution, e.g., updating power
allocation coefficients. NOMA can support multiple users
within the same resource block by distinguishing them with
different power levels. As a result, NOMA is able to support
more connectivity and provide higher throughput with limited
resources.

The downlink transmission of NOMA for the two user case

is shown in Figure 1 where the users are served at the same
time/frequency/code resource block with a total power
constraint. NOMA allocates less power for the users with
better downlink CSI (channel state information), to guarantee
Figure 2.Comparative outage probability performance between NOMA and
overall fairness and to utilize diversity in the TDMA.
time/frequency/code domains.
Figure 2 compares the outage probability between
NOMA and TDMA under average CSI information as a
function of the total transmitted power. NOMA outperforms
TDMA by an order of magnitude. NOMA also has at least
five times better performance compared to the fixed NOMA
PA scheme. As expected, higher target spectral efficiency
results in worse outage probability because it is more difficult
to be satisfied.

V. CONCLUSION
It considered jointly optimizing power and channel
Figure 1: Downlink power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). allocation for NOMA. The proposed algorithm is capable of
providing near-optimal solutions as well as bounding the
In this work, the solutions of joint channel and power global optimum tightly. Numerical results demonstrate that
allocation for NOMA are subject to systematic optimization, the proposed algorithmic notions result in significant
rather than using heuristics or ad-hoc methods. It deals with improvement of throughput and fairness in comparison to
the maximum weighted sum-rate (WSR) and sum-rate (SR) existing TDMA and NOMA schemes. This can be formulated
utilities, it formulates the joint power and channel allocation as to minimize the total power, with constraints specifying
problems (JPCAP) mathematically. Unlike previous works, the throughput target value and client-individual power
this approach contributes to delivering near-optimal limits.
solutions, as well as performance bounds on global optimum
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