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An Opportunistic NOMA Scheme for Multiuser Spatial Multiplexing VLC Systems


Abstract:

For indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems, multiuser spatial multiplexing (SMP) has become a crucial technology to enhance the network capacity by using multip...Show More

Abstract:

For indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems, multiuser spatial multiplexing (SMP) has become a crucial technology to enhance the network capacity by using multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs). However, the performance of a VLC system based on multiuser SMP is dynamic-range-limited since the dynamic range of some LEDs is usually underutilized in this case. To solve this problem, an opportunistic non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is put forward to utilize the unsaturated dynamic range by allowing more user connections and as a result the spectral-efficiency is improved. Therein, the effects of user location distribution and successive interference cancellation (SIC) error propagation are investigated. In order to further improve the spectral-efficiency, we have developed an adaptive dynamic-range utilization scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme effectively improves the spectral-efficiency under the primary users' quality of service (QoS) requirement.
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters ( Volume: 25, Issue: 9, September 2021)
Page(s): 3017 - 3021
Date of Publication: 04 June 2021

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