Joint optimization for secure ambient backscatter communication in NOMA-enabled IoT networks

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has emerged as a novel air interface technology for massive connectivity in Sixth-Generation (6G) era. The recent integration of NOMA in Backscatter Communication (BC) has triggered significant research interest due to its applications in low-powered Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the link security aspect of these networks has not been well investigated. This article provides a new optimization framework for improving the physical layer security of the NOMA ambient BC system. Our system model takes into account the simultaneous operation of NOMA IoT users and the Backscatter Node (BN) in the presence of multiple EavesDroppers (EDs). The EDs in the surrounding area can overhear the communication of Base Station (BS) and BN due to the wireless broadcast transmission. Thus, the chief aim is to enhance link security by optimizing the BN reflection coefficient and BS transmit power. To gauge the performance of the proposed scheme, we also present the suboptimal NOMA and conventional orthogonal multiple access as benchmark schemes. Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the NOMA BC scheme over the pure NOMA scheme without the BC and conventional orthogonal multiple access schemes in terms of system secrecy rate.     

面向5G的非正交多址接入技术

在频谱资源受限的情况下,非正交多址接入（non-orthogonal multiple access,NOMA）技术由于其良好的过载性能而受到广泛关注。首先,提出了基于复杂度受限的NOMA理论设计模型;接着,对目前主流的NOMA 技术方案进行了研究分析,并针对每种方案给出了其设计原理;进一步,设计了基于期望值传播（expectation propagation,EP）的低复杂度接收机;最后,通过仿真比较了 NOMA 与传统正交多址接入（orthogonal multiple access,OMA）技术的性能。结果表明,NOMA较传统的OMA技术能够显著提升系统容量和误码率（block error rate,BLER）性能。     

Performance analysis of SWIPT-assisted adaptive NOMA/OMA system with hardware impairments and imperfect CSI

This paper investigates the effect of hardware impairments (HIs) and imperfect channel state information (ICSI) on a SWIPT-assisted adaptive nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)/orthogonal multiple access (OMA) system over independent and nonidentical Rayleigh fading channels. In the NOMA mode, the energy-constrained near users act as a relay to improve the performance for the far users. The OMA transmission mode is adopted to avoid a complete outage when NOMA is infeasible. The best user selection scheme is considered to maximize the energy harvested and avoid error propagation. To characterize the performance of the proposed systems, closed-form and asymptotic expressions of the outage probability for both near and far users are studied. Moreover, exact and approximate expressions of the ergodic rate for near and far users are investigated. Simulation results are provided to verify our theoretical analysis and confirm the superiority of the proposed NOMA/OMA scheme in comparison with the conventional NOMA and OMA protocol with/without HIs and ICSI.     

On the Ergodic Capacity and Energy Efficiency for Fading MIMO NOMA Systems

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is expected to be a promising multiple access techniques for 5G networks due to its superior spectral efficiency (SE). Previous research mainly focus on the design to improve the SE performance with instantaneous channel state information (CSI). In this paper, we consider the fading MIMO channels with only statistical CSI at the transmitter, and explore the potential gains of MIMO NOMA scheme in terms of both ergodic capacity and energy efficiency (EE). The ergodic capacity maximization problem is first studied for the fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) NOMA systems. We derive the optimal input covariance structure and propose both optimal and low complexity suboptimal power allocation schemes to maximize the ergodic capacity of MIMO NOMA system. For the EE maximization, the optimization problem is formulated to maximize the system EE (defined by ergodic capacity under unit power consumption) under the total transmit power constraint and the minimum rate constraint of the weak user. By transforming the EE maximization problem into an equivalent one-dimensional optimization problem, the optimal power allocation for EE design is proposed. To further reduce the computation complexity, a near-optimal solution based on golden section search and suboptimal closed form solution are proposed as well. Numerical results show that the proposed NOMA schemes significantly outperform the traditional orthogonal multiple access scheme with traditional orthogonal multiple access transmission in terms of both SE and EE.     

Cross‐layer 1 and 5 user grouping/power allocation/subcarrier allocations for downlink OFDMA/NOMA video communications

Wang et al proposed cross‐layer resource allocation for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) video transmission systems. Unlike Wang et al, we add non‐orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to the downlink OFDMA video transmission system and propose power allocation for users on each subcarrier (cluster) to minimize sum of video mean square error (MSE) to increase the peak signal‐to‐noise ratio (PSNR), the video quality. For OFDMA/NOMA video communication systems, we propose cross‐layer user clustering to reassign the subcarriers based on sum video distortion minimization and derive the optimal power allocation among NOMA users on the same subcarrier to minimize the sum video distortion. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous OFDMA cross‐layer scheme by Wang et al by 2.2 to 4.5 dB in PSNR and previous OFDMA NOMA physical layer scheme by Ali et al by 2 to 4.4 dB in PSNR, when SNR = 15 dB, and the number of users is 6 to 12.     

Layered D2D NOMA

This paper investigates a layered power allocation(PA)non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)scheme for device-to-device(D2D)relaying networks,where the strategy of partial data transmission at relay nodes are adopted to improve the efficiency of resources.In addition,to satisfy different quality-of-service(QoS)requirements from multiple users,layered and grouped manners are involved.Moreover,the closed-form expressions in terms of the sum-rate(SR)and outage probability of the proposed scheme are derived for independent Rayleigh fading channels,which demonstrates our theoretical analysis.Both analytical and simulation results are provided to show the superiority of our proposed scheme compared with existing works.     

基于NOMA的协作中继网络安全性能分析

由于非正交多址接入(Non-orthogonal Multiple Access,NOMA)能够显著提升系统的频谱资源利用率,在下一代移动通信中得到广泛应用。对NOMA环境下多中继协作网络的最优中继选择方案和系统安全性能进行了分析和讨论,其中包含窃听者仅窃听中继和窃听者同时窃听中继及源节点这2种情况下的系统安全性能表现,并与相同场景下正交多址接入(Orthogonal Multiple Access,OMA)网络进行了对比。最终的理论分析和仿真结果表明,在所提出系统模型中,当信道条件相同时,NOMA网络总能取得相较于OMA网络更好的安全性能,同时随着系统中继节点数目的增多,NOMA网络在物理层安全性能上获得更大的优势。     

A NOMA-Enabled Cellular Symbiotic Radio for mMTC

Wireless Personal Communications - Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme, potentially enabling high spectral efficiency, is one of the key technological innovations in the 5th generation...     

An Efficient Code Domain NOMA Scheme with Enhanced Spectral and Energy Efficiency for Networks Beyond 5G

Wireless Personal Communications - Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is an efficient multiple access scheme which augments the capacity and overall throughput in LTE and 5G networks. Tackling...     

Network‐coded MIMO‐NOMA systems with FEC codes in two‐way relay networks

This paper assumes two users and a two‐way relay network with the combination of 2×2 multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) and nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA). To achieve network reliability without sacrificing network throughput, network‐coded MIMO‐NOMA schemes with convolutional, Reed‐Solomon (RS), and turbo codes are applied. Messages from two users at the relay node are network‐coded and combined in NOMA scheme. Interleaved differential encoding with redundancy (R‐RIDE) scheme is proposed together with MIMO‐NOMA system. Quadrature phase‐shift keying (QPSK) modulation technique is used. Bit error rate (BER) versus signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) (dB) and average mutual information (AMI) (bps/Hz) versus SNR (dB) in NOMA and MIMO‐NOMA schemes are evaluated and presented. From the simulated results, the combination of MIMO‐NOMA system with the proposed R‐RIDE‐Turbo network‐coded scheme in two‐way relay networks has better BER and higher AMI performance than conventional coded NOMA system. Furthermore, R‐RIDE‐Turbo scheme in MIMO‐NOMA system outperforms the other coded schemes in both MIMO‐NOMA and NOMA systems.