@inproceedings{5d6b32cf055d4221b4bd8c75e1523940,
title = "Joint Transmit Precoding and Rate Allocation for Rate-Splitting Multiple Access Based Wireless Backhaul HetNets",
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.",
keywords = "Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA), heterogeneous network (HetNet), spectral efficiency, transmit precoding, wireless backhaul",
author = "Guangyuan Zheng and Miaowen Wen and Yingyang Chen and Wu, {Yik Chung} and Poor, {H. Vincent}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023 ; Conference date: 28-05-2023 Through 01-06-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279553",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Communications",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2105--2110",
editor = "Michele Zorzi and Meixia Tao and Walid Saad",
booktitle = "ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications",
address = "United States",
}