Abstract
In this letter, the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is compared with conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. It is proved analytically that for a simple scenario of two users, MIMO-NOMA dominates MIMO-OMA in terms of both sum rate and ergodic sum rate. Furthermore, for a more practical scenario of multiple users, with two users paired into a cluster and sharing a common transmit beamforming vector, the conclusion still holds. Numerical simulations are conducted, which corroborate the analytical findings.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 7938651 |
Pages (from-to) | 534-537 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- 5G systems
- Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
- channel capacity
- multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
- sum rate
- user pairing