Joint Transmit Precoding and Rate Allocation for Rate-Splitting Multiple Access Based Wireless Backhaul HetNets

Guangyuan Zheng, Miaowen Wen, Yingyang Chen, Yik Chung Wu, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the application of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) in a two-tier wireless backhaul heterogeneous network (HetNet), where a macro base station (MBS) simultaneously transmits wireless access signals to macro-cell users (MCUs) and wireless backhaul signals to small base stations (SBSs) by leveraging RSMA. In order to improve the system spectral efficiency (SE) while guaranteeing the quality-of-service (QoS) of each user, we formulate an optimization problem to maximize the sum SE by jointly considering transmit precoding and rate allocation at the MBS and SBSs. To solve the formulated non-convex problem, we propose an iterative algorithm based on successive convex approximation (SCA). Simulation results show that the application of RSMA can achieve higher SE over conventional non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and space division multiple access (SDMA) under different network loads. In addition, RSMA has better flexibility than other benchmark schemes in meeting the increasing QoS requirements of users.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
Subtitle of host publicationSustainable Communications for Renaissance
EditorsMichele Zorzi, Meixia Tao, Walid Saad
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2105-2110
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538674628
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023 - Rome, Italy
Duration: May 28 2023Jun 1 2023

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2023-May
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period5/28/236/1/23

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)
  • heterogeneous network (HetNet)
  • spectral efficiency
  • transmit precoding
  • wireless backhaul

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