Rate-Splitting Unifying SDMA, OMA, NOMA, and Multicasting in MISO Broadcast Channel: A Simple Two-User Rate Analysis

Bruno Clerckx, Yijie Mao, Robert Schober, H. Vincent Poor

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

218 Scopus citations

Abstract

Considering a two-user multi-antenna Broadcast Channel, this letter shows that linearly precoded Rate-Splitting (RS) with Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) receivers is a flexible framework for non-orthogonal transmission that generalizes, and subsumes as special cases, four seemingly different strategies, namely Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) based on linear precoding, Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA), Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) based on linearly precoded superposition coding with SIC, and physical-layer multicasting. This letter studies the sum-rate and shows analytically how RS unifies, outperforms, and specializes to SDMA, OMA, NOMA, and multicasting as a function of the disparity of the channel strengths and the angle between the user channel directions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8907421
Pages (from-to)349-353
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2020
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • NOMA
  • OMA
  • Rate-splitting
  • SDMA
  • multi-antenna broadcast channel
  • multicasting
  • rate analysis

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Rate-Splitting Unifying SDMA, OMA, NOMA, and Multicasting in MISO Broadcast Channel: A Simple Two-User Rate Analysis'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this