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NOMA Application to Satellite Communication Networks for 5G: A Comprehensive Survey of Existing Studies

Journal of Communications, 2021

The 4th generation of communication networks (4G) seems limited and unable to satisfy the growing networks’ performances demands of new intended communication services such as the internet-of-things (IoTs). The 5th generation of communication networks (5G) has therefore been envisaged to fill the gap. The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology and the satellite communication have been identified as key enabling technologies for the achievement of 5G networks. There are many ongoing NOMA related works for 5G; however, the few existing reviews mostly discuss works that apply NOMA to terrestrial networks. This paper therefore, gives a comprehensive and up-to-date review of existing works applying NOMA to satellite communication networks. More precisely, it presents studies that have either designed or do performance analysis of NOMA-based multibeam satellitesystems (MBSSs) or integrated satellite-terrestrial networks (ISTNs). The surveys presented showed that the application ...

Performance of NOMA-Enabled Cognitive Satellite-Terrestrial Networks With Non-Ideal System Limitations

IEEE Access, 2021

Satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) have received significant attention from research and industry due to their capability of providing a stable connection to rural and distant areas, where the allocation of terrestrial infrastructures is uneconomical or difficult. Moreover, the STNs are considered as a promising enabler of fifth-generation communication networks. However, expected massive connectivity in future communication networks will face issues associated with spectrum scarcity. In this regard, the integration of cognitive radio and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques into STNs is considered as a promising remedy. Thereafter, in this article, we investigate NOMA-assisted cognitive STN under practical system conditions, such as transceiver hardware impairments, channel state information mismatch, imperfect successive interference cancellation, and interference noises. Generalized coverage probability formulas for NOMA users in both primary and secondary networks are derived considering the impact of interference temperature constraint and its correctness is verified through Monte Carlo simulation. Furthermore, to achieve performance fairness among the users, power allocation factors based on coverage fairness for primary and secondary NOMA users are provided. Moreover, the numerical results demonstrate superior performance compared to the ones obtained from an orthogonal multiple access scheme and examine the imperfection's impact on the system performance in terms of coverage and throughput. INDEX TERMS Cognitive radio (CR), coverage probability, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), optimization, satellite-terrestrial network (STN).

Performance Analysis of NOMA-Based Land Mobile Satellite Networks

IEEE Access, 2018

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme, which has the ability to superpose information in the power domain and serve multiple users on the same time/frequency resource, is regarded as an effective solution to increase transmit rate and fairness. In this paper, we introduce the NOMA scheme in a downlink land mobile satellite (LMS) network and present a comprehensive performance analysis for the considered system. Specifically, we first obtain the power allocation coefficients by maximizing the sum rate while meeting the predefined target rates of each NOMA user. Then, we derive the theoretical expressions for the ergodic capacity and the energy efficiency of the considered system. Moreover, the outage probability (OP) and average symbol error rate performances of NOMA users are derived analytically. To gain further insights, we derive the asymptotic OP at the high signal-to-noise ratio regime to characterize the diversity orders and coding gains of NOMA users. Finally, simulation results are provided to validate the theoretical analysis as well as the superiority of employing the NOMA scheme in the LMS system, and show the impact of key parameters, such as fading configurations and user selection strategy on the performance of NOMA users. INDEX TERMS Land mobile satellite network, non-orthogonal multiple access, ergodic capacity, energy efficiency, outage probability, average symbol error rate.

HST-NNC: A Novel Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Communication With NOMA and Network Coding Systems

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2021

Hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks (HSTNs) are considered to be a promising solution in dealing with coverage and mobility challenges encountered in 5 th generation (5G) networks that employ novel multiple access and connectivity schemes. In this respect, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) as well as network coding (NC) schemes have attracted significant attention due to their performance gains which not only improve the quality of wireless transmission but also effectively exploit the available spectrum. In this paper, a combined NOMA-NC (NNC) scheme is presented and integrated into an HSTN consisting of a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite belonging to an LEO constellation, a terrestrial base station (BS), and multiple terrestrial mobile terminals (MTs). The proposed scheme, termed HST-NNC (Hybrid satellite terrestrial-NNC), allows pairs of users to be simultaneously served through NOMA via the terrestrial BS link and the satellite link. Furthermore, the satellite employs random linear network coding (RLNC), within the general framework of systematic network coding (SNC), to improve the reception of the MTs when errors occur. The proposed HST-NNC, as compared to standalone NOMA, does not require additional channel state information (CSI) overheads because the satellite needs only the indices of user pairs to perform RLNC. Performance comparisons of HST-NNC with conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and NOMA optimal user pairing schemes have shown that significant sum rate and BER gains can be obtained under various operating system parameters, such as varying number of MTs and different channel conditions.

Power Allocation and User Clustering in Multicast NOMA based Satellite Communication Systems

ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2020

This paper investigates the application of multicast non-orthogonal multiple access (MC-NOMA) schemes to the forward link of a satellite communication system. In multicast transmission each frame contains information of multiple users. To benefit from the theory developed in NOMA, the proposed scheme creates two groups of users within each beam. The analysis conducted in this work reveals that the user grouping has an impact on the performance. In the light of this observation, power allocation and user clustering techniques have been derived to either maximize the sum-rate or achieve maxmin fairness. The numerical simulation results show that MC-NOMA outperforms multicast orthogonal multiple access (MC-OMA) schemes, where different groups are served in orthogonal resources. Moreover, the gain of MC-NOMA over the MC-OMA becomes more prominent as number of users per group and the transmit power increases. The results show the minimum-rate and the sum-rate of MC-NOMA can be increased by a factor 2 and 1.45 with respect to MC-OMA, respectively.

Cognitive Non-ideal NOMA Satellite-Terrestrial Networks with Channel and Hardware Imperfections

2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2021

This paper investigates a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted cognitive satellite-terrestrial network which is practically limited by interference noises, transceiver hardware impairments, imperfect successive interference cancellation, and channel state information mismatch. Generalized outage probability expressions for NOMA users in both primary and secondary networks are derived considering the impact of interference temperature constraint. Finally, obtained results are corroborated by Monte Carlo simulations and compared with the orthogonal multiple access to show the superior performance of the proposed network model. Index Terms-Cognitive radio (CR), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), outage probability, satellite-terrestrial network (STN).

Performance of Hybrid Satellite-UAV NOMA Systems

This paper investigates the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based hybrid satellite-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, where a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communicates with the ground users via a decode and forward (DF) UAV relay. We investigate a two NOMA users system, where a far user (FU) and a near user (NU) are served by the UAV which is located at a certain height above the origin of the coverage circle. The channel between satellite and UAV is assumed to follow a Shadowed-Rician fading and the channels between UAV and users are assumed to follow a Nakagami-m fading. New closed-form expressions of the outage probabilities for the two users and the system are derived. Different from other work in literature, we take into consideration different parameters affecting the total link budget. Additionally, we propose an algorithm for minimizing the system outage probability. The mathematical analysis is verified by extensive representative Monte-Carlo (MC)...

On the Performance of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA): Terrestrial vs. Aerial Networks

2020

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising multiple access technique for beyond fifth generation (B5G) cellular wireless networks, where several users can be served on a single time-frequency resource block, using the concepts of superposition coding at the transmitter and selfinterference cancellation (SIC) at the receiver. For terrestrial networks, the achievable performance gains of NOMA over traditional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) are well-known. However, the achievable performance of NOMA in aerial networks, compared to terrestrial networks, is not well-understood. In this paper, we provide a unified analytic framework to characterize the outage probabilities of users considering various network settings, such as i) uplink and downlink NOMA and OMA in aerial networks, and ii) uplink and downlink NOMA and OMA in terrestrial networks. In particular, we derive closed-form rate outage probability expressions for two users, considering line-of-sight (LOS) Rician fading channels. Numerical results validate the derived analytical expressions and demonstrate the difference of outage probabilities of users with OMA and NOMA transmissions. Numerical results unveil that the optimal UAV height increases with the increase in Rice-K factor, which implies strong line-of-sight (LOS) conditions. Index Terms-Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), terrestrial/aerial networks, SINR, outage probability.

Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Future Wireless Communications

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 2018

There is a huge demand for increased connectivity and reliability of devices in the fifth generation and beyond of wireless communications so as to ensure massive connectivity and high spectral efficiency. Recently, powerdomain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has received considerable attention as a promising multiple access scheme to improve spectrum efficiency. It allows multiple users to share both time and frequency resources by adjusting the power allocation ratio. However, with ever-increasing mobile users and machines in future wireless environments, NOMA still suffers from some challenges such as a limited connectivity, channel uncertainty and a trade-off between throughput and user fairness. Therefore, an opportunity exists for developing NOMA features in a cooperation of such devices. In this paper, we focuses on exploring cooperative power-domain NOMA systems to maximize potential and develops an effective multiple access for next generation wireless systems. To explore the trade-off of the cooperative NOMA system between its performance and the network complexity, several NOMA systems along with various techniques are introduced. Firstly, a joint NOMA and partial relay selection is introduced to improve both system throughput and user fairness. Secondly, a cooperative NOMA scheme which uses a cognitive radio network as an underlay is also introduced. In this work, a cooperative scheme is used to enhance the outage performance at a cell-edge user for user fairness and NOMA aims to improve spectral efficiency. Finally, an opportunistic NOMA under unreliable wireless backhauls and fronthaul channel uncertainty is introduced and two opportunistic selection rules are applied to a joint NOMA scheme and cooperated transmission. In this work, the impact of unreliable wireless backhauls and fronthaul channel uncertainty on the coordinated NOMA system is examined.