Heterogeneous Network Bandwidth Control Scheme for the Hybrid OMA-NOMA System Platform

Abstract

The emerging non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered as a promising technology to reach the goals of 5G cellular systems. Due to its superior spectral efficiency, the NOMA has attracted a lot of attention recently, and could play a vital role in improving the capacity of future Heterogeneous networks (HetNets). In this paper, we present a joint bandwidth control scheme, which incorporates both NOMA and orthogonal multiple access (OMA) modes into one unified scheme. For the effective collaboration of different multiple access methods, we adopt the ideas of cooperative bargaining solution concepts. In the proposed scheme, the bandwidth allocation process for base stations and channels follows the OMA mode, and mobile devices within a same channel form a group. The power level selection process for mobile devices in each group follows the NOMA mode. In the OMA mode, traditional Nash bargaining solution is adopted to allocate bandwidth resources. In the NOMA mode, groups of individual devices bargain both within and across groups based on the group bargaining solution. Under the dynamic changing HetNet environments, our joint bargaining approach takes various benefits in a rational way while maximizing the bandwidth efficiency. Comprehensive numerical experiments are provided to show that the performance of our proposed scheme is superior to existing HetNet spectrum control protocols.

Keywords

• 5G heterogeneous network
• non-orthogonal multiple access
• orthogonal multiple access
• group bargaining solution
• bandwidth control