A Portable SDR Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Testbed for 5G Networks

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is envisioned to be one of the promising radio access techniques for the fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. In this paper, a portable NOMA testbed based on software defined radio (SDR) is developed by transporting our NOMA system to mini personal computers (PCs). Moreover, the NOMA testbed has been enhanced from 5 MHz bandwidth to 10 MHz bandwidth. As the computation complexity grows higher with the increase of system bandwidth, the portable NOMA testbed is not competent to fully demonstrate the performance of our NOMA system due to the limitation of mini PC. For a better understanding of the NOMA testbed, the system architecture and scenario are introduced in brief. Then, the implementation of NOMA transceiver and the protocol stack are described separately. Finally, a series of experiments are carried out to evaluate its performance loss compared with the original NOMA system based on desktops. The experimental results indicate that the performance of processors may be a short slab for the development of portable SDR-based testbeds towards 5G networks.

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