NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH V-BLAST UNDER OPTIMUM ORDERING

Abstract

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is expected to be one of the fundamental technologies of the upcoming 6G standard. This is mainly due to NOMA's potential in enabling all the users to utilize the same frequency band and the same time slot. In this paper, NOMA is implemented in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system. By implementing zero-forcing V-BLAST algorithm into NOMA, spectral efficiency is improved, and successive interference cancellation is carried out. To perform optimum ordering, receive antennas’ signatures are compared and which signal to be decoded first is determined. Outage probability results of the system with optimum ordering and the same system without ordering are compared. In this way, a 3 dB gain is shown to be attained in terms of signal-to-noise ratio.