Software Defined Radio Implementation of a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access System Towards 5G | Zendy

Xingguang Wei | Zendy; Haitao Liu | Zendy; Zhiming Geng | Zendy; Kan Zheng | Zendy; Rongtao Xu | Zendy; Yang Liu | Zendy; Peng Chen | Zendy

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Software Defined Radio Implementation of a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access System Towards 5G

Author(s) -

Xingguang Wei,

Haitao Liu,

Zhiming Geng,

Kan Zheng,

Rongtao Xu,

Yang Liu,

Peng Chen

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

ieee access

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587

H-Index - 127

ISSN - 2169-3536

DOI - 10.1109/access.2016.2634038

Subject(s) - aerospace , bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , engineering profession , fields, waves and electromagnetics , general topics for engineers , geoscience , nuclear engineering , photonics and electrooptics , power, energy and industry applications , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is envisioned to be one of the essential technologies for the fifth generation mobile network. In this paper, we implement a practical downlink NOMA system based on an open-source software defined radio (SDR) platform named as OpenAirInterface (OAI). For comparison purpose, our SDR-based NOMA system follows the basic specifications of long term evolution (LTE). In this system, a codeword-level successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver is implemented. To improve the efficiency of the baseband signal processing in an SIC receiver, a multi-thread processing method is also introduced. Due to the limitation of original downlink control information (DCI) formats in current LTE systems, a new DCI format is dedicatedly designed for signal reconstitution in our developed NOMA system. Furthermore, some parts of upper layer protocols in LTE systems are modified to support the application services over the developed NOMA system. Based on our NOMA system, a series of over-the-air experiments are carried out, and the experiment results demonstrate that the NOMA scheme has a significant throughput gain compared with an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme.

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