Abstract

With the massive deployment of 5G commercial applications, the Internet of Everything promotes the transformation and upgrading of the society production mode. The Internet of Things (IoT) is supported by the massive machine-type communications (mMTC), which is one of the three major application scenarios of 5G. Recently, a novel spreading based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme named tandem spreading multiple access (TSMA) has been proposed for grant-free random access in mMTC. However, TSMA only considers the case of single antenna, the connectivity expansion on spatial domain has not been considered. In this article, a multi-antenna system scheme of TSMA (MIMO-TSMA) is proposed to scale up user connections. In this scheme, spectrum efficiency can be promoted by sharing the time frequency resources in different beams. In the meantime, scheme against channel deep fading is considered in this work. The simulation results show that MIMO-TSMA can effectively take advantage of MIMO and TSMA to enhance the mMTC system performance.

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