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 2016 년 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표
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다운링크 NOMA 에 대한 SIC 의 성능 분석

무하마드 레한 우스만, 아슬라 칸, 무하마드 아슬란 우스만, 신수용*

금오공과대학교

rehanusman@gmail.com, arslakhan@kumoh.ac.kr, arslanusman@msn.com, *wdragon@kumoh.ac.kr

Performance Analysis of Perfect and Imperfect SIC for Downlink Non Orthogonal
Multiple Access (NOMA)

Muhammad Rehan Usman, Arsla Khan, Muhammad Arslan Usman, Soo young Shin*
Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT).

ABSTRACT

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered to be one of the possible radio access techniques for enhancement
towards 5G. It provides better performance gains as compared to the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) techniques. In this paper,
we study the downlink NOMA performance using the perfect and imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC). The
purpose of this study is to provide a realistic approach of applying SIC rather than considering the ideal SIC conditions. The
receiver performance is measured in terms of bit error rate (BER) for both perfect and imperfect SIC and the results are provided
at the end of the paper.

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION and [4]. In NOMA, SIC is performed at the UE receiver. The

order of decoding is with respect to the increasing channel
Explosive growth of cellular traffic in recent years has
gain normalized by the inter-cell interference (ICI) power
increased the demand of network capacity and throughput
and noise [4]. Based on this order the user that comes
[1]. To date, several solutions have been provided so far for
before (Near user (NU)) decodes the signal of the other user
increasing the system capacity and throughput beyond 4G.
(Far User (FU)) and discards the unwanted signal
However, with the inclusion of technologies like internet of
information using SIC. The concept is shown in Fig. 1.
things (IoT) and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in 5G,
To date, several studies have been conducted on SIC-
network operators need more promising solutions to further
NOMA with ideal SIC conditions, i.e., The NU has perfect
enhance the performance of the networks. To cope with this
information of the FU signal. But limited work has been
issue, researchers are working to provide new access
performed with non-ideal conditions, i.e., NU has distorted
techniques for improving the system performance. One of
knowledge of the FU signal. In this work, we concentrate on
these techniques is non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
the performance of non-ideal conditions assuming
which is considered to be a promising solution for
imperfect SIC with NOMA. The results are then compared
enhancing the system performance beyond 4G [2].
with the ideal SIC.
In NOMA, power domain is used to separate the
downlink signals of user equipments (UEs) from each other.
Power

It superposes multiple users in the power domain by non- Frequency

orthogonally multiplexing them over the same signal. This

gives a new dimension in which signals can be separated SIC of FU NU Signal FU Signal

and given access to a base station (BS). To successfully use

Signal Decoding decoding
Near User (NU) FAR User (FU)
Base Station (BS)
NOMA, it must be used together with interference
High Low
avoidance technique such as successive interference Received SINR

cancellation (SIC). Such studies were performed in [2], [3] Fig. 1. Downlink NOMA with SIC
 Ⅱ. MODEL 10
0

We start with the basic model of NOMA with SIC as given -1

10
in [4]. Let us consider that base station transmits a signal for
UE-j with transmission power 𝑃𝑗 where, j = 1, 2. For
-2
10

simplicity two users are used for downlink NOMA. The

BER
-3
10
superposition coded signals of the NU and FU are
represented by 𝑎1 and 𝑎2 respectively: 10
-4

𝑎 = √𝑃1𝑎1 + √𝑃2𝑎2 (1) -5 NU Imperfect SIC, BPSK, P1=0.2

10
The received signal at user j (j=1, 2) is given as:
NU Perfect SIC, BPSK, P1=0.2
FU, BPSK, P2=0.8
-6
𝑦𝑗 = ℎ𝑗 𝑎 + 𝑛𝑗 10
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
𝑦𝑗 = ℎ𝑗 (√𝑃1 𝑎1 + √𝑃2𝑎2 ) + 𝑛𝑗 (2) SNR [dB]
Fig. 2. BER performance using perfect and imperfect SIC for
where, ℎ𝑗 represents the channel and 𝑛𝑗 represents the downlink NOMA.

additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) for the 𝑗𝑡ℎ with zero
IV. CONCLUSION
mean and variance.
In this work, the effects of imperfect SIC conditions are
Perfect SIC: For ideal SIC it is assumed that NU has the
investigated in the downlink NOMA. The imperfect
perfect and complete information of FU signal. In this case it
conditions are met by distorting the FU signal information at
will be very easy for the NU to perform SIC and retrieve the
NU by introducing the effects of AWGN and Rayleigh fading
required information, which is simply denoted as:
channel. The overall analysis gives more realistic results than
𝑦𝑗 − √𝑃2𝑎2
𝑎1 = (3) the ideal SIC conditions.
√𝑃1
Imperfect SIC: For imperfect SIC it is assumed that NU dose ACKNOWLEDGMENT

not has the perfect knowledge of the FU signal. To include
the imperfect conditions, the information of FU signal at NU
is distorted by adding the effects of AWGN and Rayleigh
fading channel:
𝑠̂2 = √𝑃2𝑎2 . ℎ2 + 𝑛2 (4)
where, ℎ2 represents the Rayleigh fading channel and 𝑛2
represent the AWGN. The retrieved signal at NU is then
given as:
𝑦𝑗 − 𝑠̂2
𝑠1 = (5)
√𝑃1
The simulation results for the perfect and imperfect SIC
are shown in the next section for both NU and FU.
Ⅲ. SIMULATIONS
The results presented in Fig. 2 show the bit error rate (BER)
performance of NU and FU for downlink NOMA using the
binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation. The NU
performance is shown using the perfect and imperfect SIC
conditions, as explained in section II. It can be seen from the
results that for imperfect SIC conditions, the NU’s BER
performance is more realistic than for the perfect SIC.
Secondly it can also be seen that the BER of FU is not
affected by the perfect or imperfect SIC conditions because
SIC is always performed at the NU.
This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of
Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC
(Information Technology Research Center) support program
(IITP-2016-H8601-16-1011) supervised by the IITP (Institute
for Information & communications Technology Promotion).
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