Performance Evaluation of Serial and Parallel Concatenated Channel Coding Scheme With Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 6G Networks

Abstract

In recent years, with the advent of 6G and intelligent devices, sensors, and new applications such as virtual reality and autonomous driving, user data traffic has exploded, especially video traffic and small IoT packets. These bandwidth-hungry applications require an increased network capacity and user access. The 6G network may use nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) instead of orthogonal multiple access (OMA) to maintain higher data rates, throughput, and lower latency. On the other hand, choosing the channel coding method for future 6G mobile communication is critical for maintaining the high demand for 6G. This paper proposes two-channel coding structures to achieve higher data rates with a lower error rate floor; these structures are polar convolutional serial code (PCSC) and polar convolutional parallel code (PCPC); these structures can achieve a larger channel capacity and reduced bit error rates when used with NOMA. The obtained simulation results showed that bit error rate (BER) performance improves the overall coding gain by 1.2 dB compared to polar code in fifth-generation (5G). PCSC surpasses PCPC with a 1.5dB coding gain. This performance ranged from 4 to 6.25dB with higher system settings. The obtained throughput results showed an improvement of 56-60%, in which the enhancement percentage depended on the modulation method used in a direct proportion manner.

Keywords

• Concatenated coding
• convolutional coding
• non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
• polar coding
• terahertz (THz)
• 6G