The Design of Receiver with Low Complexity for PDMA System

Abstract

As one of promising non-orthogonal multiple access scheme, pattern division multiple access (PDMA) scheme is considered to be one competitive multiple access technology for the fifth generation (5G) communications. The detection algorithm is the key technology to improve the system performance. Due to the PDMA patterns sparse nature, belief propagation (BP) become one effective receiver algorithm to achieve close to maximum likelihood (ML) detection performance with lower complexity. However, the complexity order is still exponential with the row weight of the PDMA pattern and the modulation index. A novel receiver based on expectation propagation (EP) algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce the complexity order from exponential to linear. This paper makes a comparison on the two algorithms above in terms of system performance and complexity. Link-level simulation results show that the proposed EP receiver achieves nearly the same performance as the BP receiver with orders less complexity.