Fair user scheduling for downlink power domain NOMA
Author(s)
Advisor
Akar, NailDate
2019-06Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has been proposed as a new radio
access technique in which multiple users (the case of user pairs or triples are
covered in this thesis) are allowed to use the wireless channel simultaneously in
a way to improve the overall system capacity. A bucket-based Temporal Fair
Scheduling algorithm (TFS) has been proposed in the literature for Orthogonal
Multiple Access (OMA) systems. In this thesis, we extend this existing work to
downlink power domain NOMA by which user pairs or triples are to be scheduled
with the goal of maximizing system capacity under temporal fairness constraints.
The effectiveness of the proposed fair user scheduling algorithm for NOMA is
validated with simulations in which the effects of transmit power and coverage
radius of the base station, as well as the number of users are thoroughly studied.