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ZTE Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (4): 17-25.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.04.003

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A Survey of Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Wireless Communication Networks

WEI Zhiqiang1, YUAN Jinhong1, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng1, Maged Elkashlan2, and DING Zhiguo3   

  1. 1. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia;
    2. Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;
    3. Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
  • Received:2016-08-15 Online:2016-10-01 Published:2019-11-29
  • About author:WEI Zhiqiang (zhiqiang.wei@unsw.edu.au) received the BE degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2012. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree in Wireless Communications Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests include non-orthogonal multiple access and resource allocation.
    YUAN Jinhong (j.yuan@unsw.edu.au) received the BE and PhD degrees in electronics engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 1991 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he was a reasearch fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2000, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is currently a professor of telecommunications. He has authored two books, three book chapters, more than 200 papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings, and 40 industrial reports. His research interests include error control coding and information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications. He is a co-inventor of one patent on MIMO systems and two patents on low-density parity-check codes. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE TCOM. He served as the IEEE NSW Chair of Joint Communications/Signal Processions/Ocean Engineering Chapter from 2011 to 2014. He was the co-recipient of three best paper awards and one best poster award, including the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Cancun, Mexico in 2011, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, Trondheim, Norway in 2007.
    Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (w.k.ng@unsw.edu.au) received the bachelor degree with first class honors and the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree in electronic engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received his PhD degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2012. He was a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Digital Communications, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is now working as a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Ng has published more than 80 journal and conference papers and his publications have been cited over 2000 times in Google Scholar with an h-index of 20. Dr. Ng is currently an editor of IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He served as a Co-Chair for the Wireless Access Track of 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference and 2016 IEEE GlobeCom Workshop on Wireless Energy Harvesting. He was also a co-organizer and guest editor of the special issue on Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking in 2014.
    Maged Elkashlan (maged.elkashlan@qmul.ac.uk) received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 2006. From 2007 to 2011, he was with the Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia. During this time, he held an adjunct appointment with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. In 2011, he joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, U.K. He currently holds visiting faculty appointments with the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory, wireless communications, and statistical signal processing for distributed data processing, heterogeneous networks, and massive MIMO. Dr. Elkashlan received the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2014, the International Conference on Communications and Networking in China in 2014, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in 2013. He also received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE CL in 2012. He serves as an editor of IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, and IEEE CL. He also serves as a lead guest editor of the Special Issue on Green Media: The Future of Wireless Multimedia Networks of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and the Special Issue on Millimeter Wave Communications for 5G of the IEEE Communications Magazine, and a guest editor of the Special Issue on Energy Harvesting Communications of the IEEE Communications Magazine and the Special Issue on Location Awareness for Radios and Networks of the IEEE JSAC.
    DING Zhiguo (z.ding@lancaster.ac.uk) received his BEng from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 2000, and the PhD degree from Imperial College London, U.K. in 2005. From Jul. 2005 to Aug. 2014, he was working in Queen’s University Belfast, Imperial College and Newcastle University. Since Sept. 2014, he has been with Lancaster University as a Chair Professor in Signal Processing. From Sept. 2012 to Sept. 2017, he has also been an academic visitor in Princeton University. Dr Ding’s research interests are 5G networks, game theory, cooperative and energy harvesting networks and statistical signal processing. He is serving as an editor for IEEE TCOM, IEEE TVT, IEEE WCL, and IEEE CL. He was the TPC Co-Chair for ICWMMN2015, and Symposium Chair for ICNC 2016 and WOCC 2015. He received the best paper award in ICWOC 2009 and WCSP 2015, IEEE CL Exemplary Reviewer 2012, and the EU Marie Curie Fellowship 20122014.

A Survey of Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Wireless Communication Networks

WEI Zhiqiang1, YUAN Jinhong1, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng1, Maged Elkashlan2, and DING Zhiguo3   

  1. 1. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia;
    2. Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;
    3. Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
  • 作者简介:WEI Zhiqiang (zhiqiang.wei@unsw.edu.au) received the BE degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2012. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree in Wireless Communications Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests include non-orthogonal multiple access and resource allocation.
    YUAN Jinhong (j.yuan@unsw.edu.au) received the BE and PhD degrees in electronics engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 1991 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he was a reasearch fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2000, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is currently a professor of telecommunications. He has authored two books, three book chapters, more than 200 papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings, and 40 industrial reports. His research interests include error control coding and information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications. He is a co-inventor of one patent on MIMO systems and two patents on low-density parity-check codes. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE TCOM. He served as the IEEE NSW Chair of Joint Communications/Signal Processions/Ocean Engineering Chapter from 2011 to 2014. He was the co-recipient of three best paper awards and one best poster award, including the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Cancun, Mexico in 2011, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, Trondheim, Norway in 2007.
    Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (w.k.ng@unsw.edu.au) received the bachelor degree with first class honors and the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree in electronic engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received his PhD degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2012. He was a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Digital Communications, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is now working as a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Ng has published more than 80 journal and conference papers and his publications have been cited over 2000 times in Google Scholar with an h-index of 20. Dr. Ng is currently an editor of IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He served as a Co-Chair for the Wireless Access Track of 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference and 2016 IEEE GlobeCom Workshop on Wireless Energy Harvesting. He was also a co-organizer and guest editor of the special issue on Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking in 2014.
    Maged Elkashlan (maged.elkashlan@qmul.ac.uk) received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 2006. From 2007 to 2011, he was with the Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia. During this time, he held an adjunct appointment with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. In 2011, he joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, U.K. He currently holds visiting faculty appointments with the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory, wireless communications, and statistical signal processing for distributed data processing, heterogeneous networks, and massive MIMO. Dr. Elkashlan received the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2014, the International Conference on Communications and Networking in China in 2014, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in 2013. He also received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE CL in 2012. He serves as an editor of IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, and IEEE CL. He also serves as a lead guest editor of the Special Issue on Green Media: The Future of Wireless Multimedia Networks of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and the Special Issue on Millimeter Wave Communications for 5G of the IEEE Communications Magazine, and a guest editor of the Special Issue on Energy Harvesting Communications of the IEEE Communications Magazine and the Special Issue on Location Awareness for Radios and Networks of the IEEE JSAC.
    DING Zhiguo (z.ding@lancaster.ac.uk) received his BEng from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 2000, and the PhD degree from Imperial College London, U.K. in 2005. From Jul. 2005 to Aug. 2014, he was working in Queen’s University Belfast, Imperial College and Newcastle University. Since Sept. 2014, he has been with Lancaster University as a Chair Professor in Signal Processing. From Sept. 2012 to Sept. 2017, he has also been an academic visitor in Princeton University. Dr Ding’s research interests are 5G networks, game theory, cooperative and energy harvesting networks and statistical signal processing. He is serving as an editor for IEEE TCOM, IEEE TVT, IEEE WCL, and IEEE CL. He was the TPC Co-Chair for ICWMMN2015, and Symposium Chair for ICNC 2016 and WOCC 2015. He received the best paper award in ICWOC 2009 and WCSP 2015, IEEE CL Exemplary Reviewer 2012, and the EU Marie Curie Fellowship 20122014.

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Abstract: Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique for the next generation cellular communication networks. In this paper, we first discuss a simple NOMA model with two users served by a single-carrier simultaneously to illustrate its basic principles. Then, a more general model with multicarrier serving an arbitrary number of users on each subcarrier is also discussed. An overview of existing works on performance analysis, resource allocation, and multiple-input multiple-output NOMA are summarized and discussed. Furthermore, we discuss the key features of NOMA and its potential research challenges.

Key words: non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), successive interference cancellation (SIC), resource allocation, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)

摘要： Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique for the next generation cellular communication networks. In this paper, we first discuss a simple NOMA model with two users served by a single-carrier simultaneously to illustrate its basic principles. Then, a more general model with multicarrier serving an arbitrary number of users on each subcarrier is also discussed. An overview of existing works on performance analysis, resource allocation, and multiple-input multiple-output NOMA are summarized and discussed. Furthermore, we discuss the key features of NOMA and its potential research challenges.

关键词: non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), successive interference cancellation (SIC), resource allocation, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)