Real-Time Transmission Control for Multichannel NOMA Random Access Systems

Abstract

To improve the throughput per channel in multichannel nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) random access (RA) system, users (re)transmit their packet to one of the channels using transmit power control such that the receive power of the packets at the base station (BS) can be one of the predefined levels called target receive power (TRP). The BS decodes the received packets in the descending order of the TRPs at each slot using successive interference cancellation (SIC). This work proposes the real-time transmission algorithm for users to (re)transmit their packet for maximization of the system throughput. To do this, the BS estimates the number of backlogged users in real time and adjusts and broadcasts the throughput-optimal (re)transmission probability in the algorithm. We analyze the average RA delay performance of the proposed algorithm and demonstrate its performance even with time-varying traffic.