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Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink communication systems: bridging, generalizing, and outperforming SDMA and NOMA

EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking, 2018-05, Vol.2018 (1), p.133-54, Article 133 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink communication systems: bridging, generalizing, and outperforming SDMA and NOMA
  • Author: Mao, Yijie ; Clerckx, Bruno ; Li, Victor O.K.
  • Subjects: Communications Engineering ; Complexity ; Decoding ; Division ; Engineering ; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) ; Interference ; Linear precoding ; MISO BC ; Networks ; Noise ; NOMA ; Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques in Emerging Wireless Systems ; Nonorthogonal multiple access ; Quality of service ; Quality of service architectures ; Rate region ; RSMA ; SDMA ; Signal,Image and Speech Processing ; Splitting ; Superposition (mathematics) ; Wireless networks
  • Is Part Of: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking, 2018-05, Vol.2018 (1), p.133-54, Article 133
  • Description: Space-division multiple access (SDMA) utilizes linear precoding to separate users in the spatial domain and relies on fully treating any residual multi-user interference as noise. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) uses linearly precoded superposition coding with successive interference cancellation (SIC) to superpose users in the power domain and relies on user grouping and ordering to enforce some users to fully decode and cancel interference created by other users. In this paper, we argue that to efficiently cope with the high throughput, heterogeneity of quality of service (QoS), and massive connectivity requirements of future multi-antenna wireless networks, multiple access design needs to depart from those two extreme interference management strategies, namely fully treat interference as noise (as in SDMA) and fully decode interference (as in NOMA). Considering a multiple-input single-output broadcast channel, we develop a novel multiple access framework, called rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA). RSMA is a more general and more powerful multiple access for downlink multi-antenna systems that contains SDMA and NOMA as special cases. RSMA relies on linearly precoded rate-splitting with SIC to decode part of the interference and treat the remaining part of the interference as noise. This capability of RSMA to partially decode interference and partially treat interference as noise enables to softly bridge the two extremes of fully decoding interference and treating interference as noise and provides room for rate and QoS enhancements and complexity reduction. The three multiple access schemes are compared, and extensive numerical results show that RSMA provides a smooth transition between SDMA and NOMA and outperforms them both in a wide range of network loads (underloaded and overloaded regimes) and user deployments (with a diversity of channel directions, channel strengths, and qualities of channel state information at the transmitter). Moreover, RSMA provides rate and QoS enhancements over NOMA at a lower computational complexity for the transmit scheduler and the receivers (number of SIC layers).
  • Publisher: Cham: Springer International Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1687-1472
    ISSN: 1687-1499
    EISSN: 1687-1499
    DOI: 10.1186/s13638-018-1104-7
    PMID: 30996723
  • Source: Springer OA刊
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    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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