Review Article

Nonorthogonal Multiple Access for Next-Generation Mobile Networks: A Technical Aspect for Research Direction

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State-of-the-art review of nonorthogonal multiple access.

Ref.ObjectiveSolution approachCategoryTech.

[26]Improve reliable detection, maximum diversity gain, and reduce system complexity.The highest diversity gain with minimum outage probability achieved by cooperative PD-NOMA. User pairing is used as a promising solution to reduce system complexity.Single carrier power domainCo-PD-NOMA
[27]Achieve the fairness performance of the NOMA scheme better than TDMA under perfect and average CSI.Investigated power allocation techniques that ensure fairness by formulating the research problems as nonconvex optimization.Single carrier power domainPD-NOMA
[28]Further improve the outage performance of MIMO-NOMA.Improvement achieved by implementing detection and precoding matrices for MIMO-NOMA.Single carrier power domainMIMO-NOMA
[29]Resource allocation algorithm design for multicarrier NOMA systems. Multiple half-duplex uplink and downlink users simultaneously served by a full-duplex base station.An algorithm is designed for multiple half-duplex uplink and downlink users simultaneously served by a full-duplex base station. Used weighted sum system throughput maximization from the solution of a nonconvex optimization problem.Multicarrier power domainMC-NOMA
[30]For the downlink NOMA system, optimized power allocation and subchannel assignment to increase energy efficiency.For subchannel multiplexed users, a low-complexity suboptimal algorithm is presented, which comprises power proportional factor determination and energy-efficient subchannel assignment.Single carrier power domainPD-NOMA
[31]Improve the link-level performance of SCMA in highly overloaded scenarios.Proposed an iterative multiuser SCMA receiver by employing channel coding which uses the coding gain and diversity gain.Multicarrier code domainSCMA
[32]Maximize the mutual information in sparse code multiple access (SCMA).Maximize the mutual information between continuous output and discrete input using an iterative codebook optimization algorithm.Multicarrier code domainSCMA
[33]Substantially minimize the hurdles of the message passing algorithm (MPA) scheme.For uplink SCMA systems, a shuffled-message passing algorithm (S-MPA) scheme is proposed, based on a serial message update strategy.Multicarrier code domainS-MPA
[34]Reduce the decoding hurdles of the current message passing algorithm.Based on list sphere decoding (LSD), a low-complexity decoding algorithm is proposed. The LSD only works with signals inside a hypersphere by evading the extensive search for all possible hypotheses.Multicarrier code domainLDS
[35]Minimizing the hurdles of the SCMA decoding.Proposed a Monte Carlo Markov Chain- (MCMC-) based SCMA decoder. Benefiting from the linearly increasing complexity of the MCMC method.Multicarrier code domainMCMC
[36]Maximize the sum rate subject to QoS and system-level constraints like power constraints.Multiple users utilized the same SCMA codebook, and for user signal nonorthogonality, the PD-NOMA scheme is utilized.Power & code domainPD-SCMA
[37]For random signature selection, allowed grant-free transmission to achieve high overloading.Introduced a blind multiple user detection for MUSA systems by using a special blind detection algorithm.Single carrier code domainMUSA
[38]For the paired users, optimized the modulated symbol mapping.Performance of MUSA with SIC has been considered by using mirror constellation bit error ratio (BER).Single carrier code domainMUSA
[39]A family of short length complex sequences is selected to permit an easy multiuser interference cancellation.Successive/parallel interference cancellation with minimum mean square error (MMSE-SIC/PIC) has been investigated for appropriate MUSA receivers.Single carrier code domainMMSE-SIC/PIC
[40]Increase user overloading and minimize multiuser interference.Enlarge the pool of the spreading sequences by using nonorthogonal dense spreading sequence to increase user overloading and reduce multiuser interference.Single carrier code domainMUSA
[41]To further enlarge the coverage area and improve transmission reliability.With forward relay and half-duplex decode, an uplink cooperative PDMA (co-PDMA) scheme is suggested.Single carrier code domainCo-PDMA
[42]Increase the performance of PDMA uplink system by using diversity gains and coding potentials.By using diversity gains and coding potentials, an iterative detection and decoding (IDD) algorithm is developed for an advanced PDMA receiver.Single carrier code domainIDD
[43]Using the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to avoid the error propagation.Based on the MMSE channel decoding and detection, a novel iterative decoding and detection algorithm is proposed, called the SIC iterative processing algorithm.Single carrier code domainSIC-MMSE
[44]Proposed the power allocation and pattern assignment in the downlink PDMA system.To optimize the overall throughput of total users based on the optimum Iterative Water-Filling (IWF) algorithm, a joint pattern assignment and power allocation (JPPA) scheme is offered.Single carrier code domainJPPA & IWF
[45]Improve security by changing the signal’s identity.Physical layer security system is suggested based on constellation scrambling (CS) and multiple parameter weighted fractional Fourier transform (MP-WFRFT).Single carrier code domainMP-WFRFT