NOMA Meets Finite Resolution Analog Beamforming in Massive MIMO and Millimeter-Wave Networks

Zhiguo Ding, Linglong Dai, Robert Schober, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

Finite resolution analog beamforming (FRAB) has been recognized as an effective approach to reduce hardware costs in massive multiple-input multiple-output and millimeter-wave networks. However, the use of FRAB means that the beamformers are not perfectly aligned with the users' channels and multiple users may be assigned similar or even identifical beamformers. This letter shows how non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can be used to exploit this feature of FRAB, in which a single FRAB-based beamformer is shared by multiple users. Both analytical and simulation results are provided to demonstrate the excellent performance achieved by this new NOMA transmission scheme.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7918554
Pages (from-to)1879-1882
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Communications Letters
Volume21
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
  • finite resolution analog beamforming (FRAB)
  • massive MIMO
  • millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks

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