Grouping and Cooperating Among Access Points in User-Centric Ultra-Dense Networks With Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access

A user-centric ultra-dense network (UUDN) is proposed as one of the promising solutions to provide very high area throughput density and flexible access service for users in the fifth-generation systems. On the one hand, network densification provides opportunities to cooperate among a large number of access points (APs) for serving a given user. On the other hand, the limited radio resources cause the serious competition among numerous APs and may degrade the network performance. Therefore, to support large number of connections and break through the restriction of limited frequency resource, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which supports multiple signals to transmit on the same frequency resource, is introduced into the UUDN. However, NOMA with network densification arises a series of challenges. And the method to group APs efficiently on the same frequency to support for a given user is a critical problem. Thus, in this paper, we propose a user-centric access framework for providing efficient access service and the flexible resource management in NOMA-based UUDN. Under the proposed framework, we then investigate the access scheme that organizes multiple APs into respective AP group (APG) cooperatively to provide access service for each user, aiming at maximizing the system energy efficiency. First, considering the users’ requirement and network environment, a grouping evaluation model is set up to organize APG efficiently. Then, we formulate the resource allocation problem of APG as a mix-integer non-linear programming problem, which is hard to tackle. For tractability purpose, we transform this problem and propose low-complexity algorithms based on matching and differ of convex programming theories to obtain a feasible solution. Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the significant performance improvement compared with the existing schemes.

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