Outage Analysis for Downlink NOMA With Statistical Channel State Information

Conventional non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes assume perfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter side, which is nearly impractical for many communication scenarios. Instead, this letter considers a practical downlink NOMA system in the Nakagami- ${m}$ fading channels, of which the transmitter only knows the statistical CSI associated with each user. We analyze the outage performance of the proposed system and derive a closed-form formulation of each user’s outage probability. Moreover, based on statistical CSI, the transmitter can optimize the system’s sum throughput over power allocation for different users. The accuracy of our outage analysis and the efficacy of the proposed optimization algorithm are both confirmed by simulation results.

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