A Low-Complexity and Fast Convergence Message Passing Receiver Based on Partial Codeword Transmission for SCMA Systems

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) based on the message passing algorithm (MPA) for multiuser detection is a competitive nonorthogonal multiple access technique for fifth-generation wireless communication networks Among the existing multiuser detection schemes for uplink (UP) SCMA systems, the serial MPA (S-MPA) scheme, where messages are updated sequentially, generally converges faster than the conventional MPA (C-MPA) scheme, where all messages are updated in a parallel manner. In this paper, the optimization of message scheduling in the S-MPA scheme is proposed. Firstly, some statistical results for the probability density function (PDF) of the received signal are obtained at various signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) by using the Monte Carlo method. Then, based on the non-orthogonal property of SCMA, the data mapping relationship between resource nodes and user nodes is comprehensively analyzed. A partial codeword transmission of S-MPA (PCTS-MPA) with threshold decision scheme of PDF is proposed and verified. Simulations show that the proposed PCTS-MPA not only reduces the complexity of MPA without changing the bit error ratio (BER), but also has a faster convergence than S-MPA, especially at high SNR values.