Stable Throughput Regions of Opportunistic NOMA and Cooperative NOMA With Full-Duplex Relaying

Abstract

In this paper, we consider downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission with dynamic traffic arrival for spatially random users of different priorities. By exploiting limited channel state information, we propose an opportunistic NOMA scheme to enable NOMA for high- and low-priority users when high-priority users experience good channel conditions. Opportunistic NOMA improves the transmission opportunities of low-priority users while reducing the adverse effect of NOMA on high-priority users. Moreover, we propose a cooperative NOMA scheme with full-duplex relaying, where low-priority users act as full-duplex relays to assist the high-priority users. The high-priority user constructively combines the signal and its delayed version transmitted by the base station and a selected relay, respectively. The adopted relay selection scheme takes into account the users’ spatial distribution, queue status, and channel conditions. By using tools from queueing theory and stochastic geometry, we derive the stable throughput regions of both proposed schemes. Furthermore, we derive the conditions under which the proposed NOMA schemes achieve larger stable throughput regions than orthogonal multiple access (OMA). At the expense of a higher implementation complexity and with appropriate parameter setting, cooperative NOMA with full-duplex relaying achieves a larger stable throughput region than opportunistic NOMA, which in turn outperforms OMA.