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Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for Future Radio Access

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Radio access technologies for cellular mobile communications are typically characterized by multiple access schemes, e.g., frequency division multiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), and OFDMA. In the 4th generation (4G) mobile communication systems such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (Au et al., Uplink contention based SCMA for 5G radio access. Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2014. doi:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2014.7063547) and LTE-Advanced (Baracca et al., IEEE Trans. Commun., 2011. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2011.121410.090252; Barry et al., Digital Communication, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2004), standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), orthogonal multiple access based on OFDMA or single carrier (SC)-FDMA is adopted. Orthogonal multiple access was a reasonable choice for achieving good system-level throughput performance with simple single-user detection. However, considering the trend in 5G, achieving significant gains in capacity and system throughput performance is a high priority requirement in view of the recent exponential increase in the volume of mobile traffic. In addition the proposed system should be able to support enhanced delay-sensitive high-volume services such as video streaming and cloud computing. Another high-level target of 5G is reduced cost, higher energy efficiency and robustness against emergencies.

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    Razieh Razavi

  2. Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), Home of the 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

    Mehrdad Dianati & Muhammad Ali Imran

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Razavi, R., Dianati, M., Imran, M.A. (2017). Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for Future Radio Access. In: Xiang, W., Zheng, K., Shen, X. (eds) 5G Mobile Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34208-5_6

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