When NOMA Multiplexing Meets Symbiotic Ambient Backscatter Communication: Outage Analysis

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) have gained a lot of interest as key enabling technologies in wireless communications systems. NOMA is a key player for enhancing spectrum utilization either by multiplexing multiple messages for the same user or allowing multi-users access, while AmBC shows great potential for enhancing both spectrum and energy efficiency for battery-limited devices. In this paper, the performance of a downlink NOMAmultiplexing based symbiotic-radio ( SR) AmBCsystem is analyzed over Nakagami-m fading channels. New closed-form expressions for the exact and asymptotic outage probabilities are derived. Moreover, we analyze the diversity order and the influence of the system parameters on the outage performances. Besides, we proposed a power allocation optimization technique to achieve an outage-optimal performance. Through representative Monte-Carlo simulations, we have verified the analytical results. Finally, we compared the performance of the proposed system against a benchmark OMA-based system.

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This paper analyzes the performance of a symbiotic-radio AmBC system based on NOMA multiplexing, and verifies the analysis results through mathematical derivation and simulations. The research results show that the system has good diversity and low outage probability under Nakagami-m fading channels, and can achieve outage-optimal performance through power allocation optimization.