Analysis of Nonorthogonal Training in Massive MIMO Under Channel Aging With SIC Receivers

Abstract

We analyze the effect of channel aging on the achievable rate of time division duplexed massive multiple input multiple output systems serving a number of users under aging channels, using nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Using the recently proposed shared uplink pilot based channel estimation for NOMA, we derive bounds on the channel estimation error variance for the two schemes. We then derive the achievable spectral efficiencies of the two schemes. Using numerical results, we show that, in slowly varying channels, using NOMA with shared pilots is preferable over OMA, while the reverse is true under fast varying channels.