Downlink NOMA with SIC using unified user grouping for non-orthogonal user multiplexing and decoding order

In this paper, we propose a practical method for user grouping and decoding-order setting in a successive interference canceller (SIC) for downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). While the optimal user grouping and decoding order, which depend on the instantaneous channel conditions among users within a cell, are assumed in previous work, the proposed method uses user grouping and a decoding order that are unified among all frequency blocks. The proposed decoding order in the SIC enables the application of NOMA with a SIC to a system where all the elements within a codeword for a user are distributed among multiple frequency blocks (resource blocks). The unified user grouping eases the complexity in the SIC process at the user terminal. The unified user grouping also reduces the complexity of the efficient downlink control signaling in NOMA with a SIC. The unified user grouping and decoding order among frequency blocks in principle reduce the achievable throughput compared to the optimal one. However, based on numerical results, we show that the proposed method does not significantly degrade the system-level throughput in downlink cellular networks.

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