On the Spectral Efficiency and Security Enhancements of NOMA Assisted Multicast-Unicast Streaming
Zhiguo Ding, Zhongyuan Zhao, Mugen Peng, H. Vincent Poor

TL;DR
This paper explores how NOMA enhances spectral efficiency and security in a multi-user network with combined multicast and unicast traffic, outperforming traditional OMA schemes.
Contribution
It introduces a NOMA-based scheme for multicast-unicast streaming that improves spectral efficiency and security, with analytical and simulation validation.
Findings
NOMA significantly outperforms OMA in spectral efficiency.
NOMA provides higher secrecy rates for unicast messages.
Multicasting messages can serve as jamming signals to enhance security.
Abstract
This paper considers the application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to a multi-user network with mixed multicasting and unicasting traffic. The proposed design of beamforming and power allocation ensures that the unicasting performance is improved while maintaining the reception reliability of multicasting. Both analytical and simulation results are provided to demonstrate that the use of the NOMA assisted multicast-unicast scheme yields a significant improvement in spectral efficiency compared to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) schemes which realize multicasting and unicasting services separately. Since unicasting messages are broadcasted to all the users, how the use of NOMA can prevent those multicasting receivers intercepting the unicasting messages is also investigated, where it is shown that the secrecy unicasting rate achieved by NOMA is always larger than or equal to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Wireless Communication Technologies · Wireless Communication Security Techniques · Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
