Low-Complexity Angle-Domain MIMO NOMA System with partial channel state information for MmWave Communications *

TL;DR

This paper introduces a low-complexity angle-domain MIMO NOMA system for mmWave communications that leverages partial CSI and user clustering to improve spectral and energy efficiency.

Contribution

It proposes a novel user-clustering and power allocation scheme for NOMA in mmWave systems using partial CSI, enhancing performance with reduced complexity.

Findings

Achieves up to 26.8% spectral efficiency gain with partial CSI.

Demonstrates significant energy efficiency improvements over classical DBS.

Validates performance improvements through simulations in rural environments.

Abstract

In millimeter-wave communication, digital beamsteering (DBS), only based on the user direction, is a promising angle-domain multi-antenna technique to mitigate the severe path loss and multiuser interference, with low-complexity and partial channel state information (CSI). In this paper, we design a power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme that enhances the DBS performance trading-off complexity , energy-consumption and capacity performance. In particular, we propose a user-clustering algorithm to pair users, based on a geometric-interference metric, so that the inter-user interference is reduced. Afterward, based on a fixed inter-cluster power allocation, we derive analytically a sub-optimal intra-cluster power allocation optimization problem to maximize the network throughput. To address the issue of partial CSI, we rewrite the aforementioned optimization problem, by relying only on the user direction. Performance evaluation of the proposed schemes is developed in rural environment, based on the New York University millimeter-wave simulator. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed low-complexity NOMA-DBS schemes with either full-or partial-CSI achieve significant performance improvement over the classical DBS, in terms of spectral-and energy-efficiencies (up to 26.8% bps/Hz rate gain for 45 users using the proposed scheme with partial CSI).