New sets of non-orthogonal spreading sequences with low correlation and low PAPR using extended Boolean functions

Abstract

Extended Boolean functions (EBFs) are one of the most important tools in cryptography and spreading sequence design in communication systems. In this paper, we use EBFs to design new sets of spreading sequences for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which is an emerging technique capable of supporting massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in 5 G and beyond. In this work, first p-ary complementary sequences are constructed using EBFs and then, these sequences are used to design new sets of non-orthogonal spreading sequence sets having very low coherence and peak to average power ratio (PAPR). The proposed spreading sequence sets are capable of supporting a large number of active devices simultaneously. In fact, for a p-ary spreading sequence set, we theoretically achieve an overloading factor of 2p, where p is an odd prime. Specifically, for $$p=3$$ , we achieve an overloading factor of 6, which cannot be achieved through the existing constructions till date.