Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 1705-1719Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2879930
Keywords
Non-orthogonal multiple access; millimeter wave; resource allocation; multi-beam
Funding
- Australia Research Council [DP160104566, LP 160100708]
- Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DE170100137]
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In this paper, we propose a multi-beam non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems and study its resource allocation. A beam splitting technique is designed to generate multiple analog beams to serve multiple NOMA users on each radio frequency chain. In contrast to the recently proposed single-beam mmWave-NOMA scheme which can only serve multiple NOMA users within the same analog beam, the proposed scheme can perform NOMA transmission for the users with an arbitrary angle-of-departure distribution. This provides a higher flexibility for applying NOMA in mmWave communications and thus can efficiently exploit the potential multi-user diversity. Then, we design a suboptimal two-stage resource allocation for maximizing the system sum-rate. In the first stage, assuming that only analog beamforming is available, a user grouping and antenna allocation algorithm is proposed to maximize the conditional system sum-rate based on the coalition formation game theory. In the second stage, with the zero-forcing digital precoder, a suboptimal solution is devised to solve a non-convex power allocation optimization problem for the maximization of the system sum-rate which takes into account the quality of service constraints. Simulation results show that our designed resource allocation can achieve a close-to-optimal performance in each stage. In addition, we demonstrate that the proposed multi-beam mmWave-NOMA scheme offers a substantial spectral efficiency improvement compared to that of the single-beam mmWave-NOMA and the mmWave orthogonal multiple access schemes.
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