Mutual information of block-faded MIMO multiple access channels with channel estimation error

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been proposed as a promising multiple access (MA) technique in order to meet the requirements for fifth generation (5G) communications and to enhance the performance in internet of things (IoT) networks by enabling massive connectivity, high throughput, and low latency. This paper investigates the bit error rate (BER) performance of two-user uplink power-domain NOMA with a successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver and taking into account channel estimation errors. The analysis considers two scenarios: perfect (ideal) channel estimation and a channel with estimation errors for various modulations schemes, BPSK, QPSK, and 16-QAM. The simulation results show that, as expected, increasing of the modulation level increases the SIC receiver BER. For example, at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 5 dB for perfect channel estimation and QPSK modulation, the user that is detected first has a BER of 0.005 compared to 0.14 for the user that is detected with the aid of the SIC receiver. Similarly, the BER of QPSK, assuming 0.25 channel estimation error of user 1, is equal to 0.06 at SNR = 15 dB compared to 0.017 for perfect estimation.

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Effect of Channel Estimation Error on the Mutual Information of MIMO Fading Channels

2008 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1109/wicom.2008.124 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jun Wang ◽

Minqi Li ◽

Yi Zhang ◽

Quan Zhou

Keyword(s):

Mutual Information ◽

Channel Estimation ◽

Fading Channels ◽

Estimation Error ◽

Channel Estimation Error

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ENERGY-EFFICIENT POWER ALLOCATION FOR IMPERFECT CSI DOWNLINK NOMA SYSTEM

ASEAN Engineering Journal ◽

10.11113/aej.v11.16686 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 118-129

Author(s):

Reem Aldebes ◽

Kaharudin Dimyati ◽

Effariza Hanafi

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Channel Estimation ◽

Outage Probability ◽

Power Allocation ◽

Multiple Access ◽

Estimation Error ◽

Base Station ◽

Channel Estimation Error ◽

Imperfect Csi ◽

Fifth Generation

The fifth generation (5G) networks must provide the massively increased number of users by thousand times higher data rate at lower power consumption. Thus, optimizing the energy efficiency (EE) becomes an essential issue that has to be researched from the green communication perspective. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered one of the high potential techniques in fifth-generation systems. This technology is favorable to maximize the energy efficiency and the spectrum efficiency by composing different signals at the same time on the same carrier at different power levels. In this paper, a low complexity power allocation algorithm is proposed in imperfect channel state information (CSI) downlink NOMA cellular system, where obtaining full CSI at the base station is considered a challenge. The proposed algorithm relies on the fact that the allocated power is inversely proportional to the channel strength of the user to implement the successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique at the user terminal to reconstruct the desired signal. The performance of the system is analyzed in terms of energy efficiency and outage probability and compared to the conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) system. Results show that the proposed algorithm increases the energy efficiency by about 50% compared to the conventional OMA technology, and an improvement in the outage probability has been achieved. Furthermore, the effect of the error in the channel estimation on the energy efficiency in imperfect CSI NOMA system is evaluated. The simulation shows that the energy efficiency reduces when the channel estimation error increases; and the best performance is achieved in the perfect CSI case where the channel estimation error is zero.

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