Optimising energy efficiency of non-orthogonal multiple access for wireless backhaul in heterogeneous cloud radio access network
Vien, Quoc-Tuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-904X, Le, Tuan Anh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0612-3717, Barn, Balbir
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7251-5033 and Phan, Ca V.
(2016)
Optimising energy efficiency of non-orthogonal multiple access for wireless backhaul in heterogeneous cloud radio access network.
IET Communications, 10
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pp. 2516-2524.
ISSN 1751-8628
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(doi:10.1049/iet-com.2016.0247)
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Abstract
This paper studies the downlink problem of a cloud-based central station (CCS) to multiple base stations (BSs) in a heterogeneous cellular network sharing the same time and frequency resources. We adopt non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and propose power allocation for the wireless downlink in the heterogeneous cloud radio access network (HCRAN). Taking into account practical channel modelling with power consumptions at BSs of different cell types (e.g. macro-cell, micro-cell, etc.) and backhauling power, we analyse the energy efficiency (EE) of the practical HCRAN utilising NOMA. Simulation results indicate that the proposed NOMA for the HCRAN outperforms the conventional orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme in terms of providing higher EE of up to four times. Interestingly, the results reveal a fact that the EE of the NOMA approach is not always an increasing function of the number of BSs but varies as a quasiconcave function. This motivates us to further introduce an optimisation problem to find the optimal number of BSs that maximises the EE of the HCRAN. It is shown that, with a low power supply at the CCS, a double number of micro BSs can be served by HCRAN providing an improved EE of up to 1.6 times compared to the macro BSs and RRHs, while they achieve the same EE performance with high-power CCS.
Item Type: | Article |
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Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer and Communications Engineering |
Item ID: | 20295 |
Notes on copyright: | Attached full text: This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IET Communications and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at IET Digital Library |
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Depositing User: | Quoc-Tuan Vien |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2016 13:37 |
Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 21:23 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/20295 |
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