Presentation 2015-06-26
Downlink NOMA Scheme with SIC Using Unified User Grouping for Non-orthogonal User Multiplexing and Decoding Order
Keita Yakou, Kenichi Higuchi,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we investigate practical methods for user grouping and setting of decoding order in a successive interference canceller (SIC) for downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). While the optimal user grouping and decoding order depending on the instantaneous channel conditions among users within a cell is assumed in previous works, the proposed method uses user grouping and decoding order which is unified among all frequency blocks. The decoding order in SIC enables the application of NOMA with SIC to the system where all the elements within a codeword for a user are distributed among multiple frequency blocks (resource blocks) in frequency-selective fading channel. The unified user grouping alleviates the complexity in SIC process at the user terminal. The unified user grouping also achieves the reduction in complexity of the efficient downlink control signaling in NOMA with SIC. The unified user grouping and decoding order among frequency blocks in principle reduce the achievable throughput compared to the optimal one. However, from the numerical results, we show that the proposed method does not harm the system-level throughput significantly in downlink cellular network.
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Keyword(in English) Downlink / Non-orthogonal multiple access / NOMA / SIC / User grouping / Decoding order
Paper # RCS2015-85
Date of Issue 2015-06-17 (RCS)

Conference Information
Committee RCS
Conference Date 2015/6/24(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Hokkaido Univ.
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Topics (in English) First Presentation in IEICE Technical Committee, Railroad Communications, Inter-Vehicle Communications, Road to Vehicle Communications, Resource Control, Scheduling, Wireless Communication Systems, etc.
Chair Makoto Taromaru(Fukuoka Univ.)
Vice Chair Hidekazu Murata(Kyoto Univ.) / Satoshi Denno(Okayama Univ.) / Yukitoshi Sanada(Keio Univ.)
Secretary Hidekazu Murata(Mitsubishi Electric) / Satoshi Denno(NTT DoCoMo) / Yukitoshi Sanada
Assistant Jun Mashino(NTT) / Tetsuya Yamamoto(Panasonic) / Takamichi Inoue(NEC) / Tomoya Tandai(Toshiba) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Hokkaido Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Downlink NOMA Scheme with SIC Using Unified User Grouping for Non-orthogonal User Multiplexing and Decoding Order
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Downlink
Keyword(2) Non-orthogonal multiple access
Keyword(3) NOMA
Keyword(4) SIC
Keyword(5) User grouping
Keyword(6) Decoding order
1st Author's Name Keita Yakou
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science(Tokyo Univ. of Science)
2nd Author's Name Kenichi Higuchi
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science(Tokyo Univ. of Science)
Date 2015-06-26
Paper # RCS2015-85
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) RCS-113
Page pp.pp.229-234(RCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-06-17 (RCS)