A Novel Cooperative NOMA Coding for Uplink MTC Networks

Pin-Han Ho

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

²Department of Computer Science, Kyungpook National University, Korea

³Department of Computer Science, Western University UWO, Canada

*Corresponding author

In this paper we consider machine-type communications (MTC) in 5G cellular networks for internet-of-thing (IoT) applications, where a large number of MTC devices simultaneously communicate with a base station (BS) over an uplink channel. To overcome the resource-constrained nature of the MTC nodes, we introduce a novel cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) coding scheme for supporting multi-user uplink transmissions with low complexity and signaling overhead, where the assumption of no feedback link hence no channel state information (CSI) available at the transmitting MTC nodes is taken. To gain deep understanding of its performance, we derive close-form analytical expressions on outage probability and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) curve in the asymptotic regime of high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and optimize the end-to-end performance in terms of the exponential decay rate of expected distortion (ED). The asymptotic analytical result can be translated into a significant SNR gains of practical implementations with general SNR values, which is further confirmed via extensive simulation.

Cooperative networks, diversity multiplexing trade off, expected distortion, internet of things, machine type communications, non-orthogonal multiple access code

Payam Padidar, Pin-Han Ho, Limei Peng, Anwar Haque, and Kshirasagar Naik (2023). A Novel Cooperative NOMA Coding for Uplink MTC Networks. Journal of Networking and Network Applications, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 119–128. https://doi.org/10.33969/J-NaNA.2023.030303.

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