A Novel Multi-Cell Interference-Aware Cooperative QoS-Based NOMA Group D2D System

Abstract

Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA), one of the favorable candidates of next-generation wireless networks combined with group device-to-device (D2D) networks, can sufficiently increase a system’s spectral efficiency. In fact, in a cooperative scenario, successive interference cancellation (SIC) is used in NOMA receivers to reduce the complexity of relaying, as each user has to decode high-order user data. This work presents a quality of service (QoS)-based cooperative NOMA-aided group D2D system (Q-CNOMA). The Q-CNOMA system not only reduces the burden on the group transmitter by relaying the signal to a receiver in neighboring cells but also improves the overall system performance. In order to model the major components in a D2D scenario such as receivers clustering around a transmitter, the spatial distribution of D2D transmitters is modeled using a Gaussian–Poisson process (GPP). A closed-form expression of outage probability is calculated and benchmarked against conventional systems to prove the superiority of the proposed Q-CNOMA system.