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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Based on Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes for Mobile Communications

Yuyuan CHANG, Kazuhiko FUKAWA

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Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which combines multiple user signals and transmits the combined signal over one channel, can achieve high spectral efficiency for mobile communications. However, combining the multiple signals can lead to degradation of bit error rates (BERs) of NOMA under severe channel conditions. In order to improve the BER performance of NOMA, this paper proposes a new NOMA scheme based on orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs). The proposed scheme transmits several multiplexed signals over their respective orthogonal time-frequency channels, and can gain diversity effects due to the orthogonality of OSTBC. Furthermore, the new scheme can detect the user signals using low-complexity linear detection in contrast with the conventional NOMA. The paper focuses on the Alamouti code, which can be considered the simplest OSTBC, and theoretically analyzes the performance of the linear detection. Computer simulations under the condition of the same bit rate per channel show that the Alamouti code based scheme using two channels is superior to the conventional NOMA using one channel in terms of BER performance. As shown by both the theoretical and simulation analyses, the linear detection for the proposed scheme can maintain the same BER performance as that of the maximum likelihood detection, when the two channels have the same frequency response and do not bring about any diversity effects, which can be regarded as the worst case.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E106-B No.10 pp.1024-1033
Publication Date
2023/10/01
Publicized
2023/04/17
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2022EBP3166
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Terrestrial Wireless Communication/Broadcasting Technologies

Authors

Yuyuan CHANG
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kazuhiko FUKAWA
  Tokyo Institute of Technology

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