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Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology meets the increasing demand for high-seed cellular networks such as 5G by offering more users to be accommodated at once in accessing the cellular and wireless network. Moreover, the current demand of cellular networks for enhanced user fairness, greater spectrum efficiency and improved sum capacity further increase the need for NOMA improvement. However, the incurred interference in implementing NOMA user grouping constitutes one of the major barriers in achieving high throughput in NOMA systems. Therefore, this paper presents a computationally lower user grouping approach based on discrete particle swarm intelligence in finding the best user-pairing for 5G NOMA networks and beyond. A discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) algorithm is designed and proposed as a promising scheme in performing the user-grouping mechanism. The performance of this proposed approach is measured and demonstrated to have comparable result against the existing state-of-the art approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energy consumption level of the telecommunication process has become a new consideration in resource management scheme. It is becoming a new parameter in the resource management scheme besides throughput, spectral efficiency, and fairness. This work proposes a power control scheme and user grouping method to keep the rational energy consumption level of the resource management scheme. Inverse water-filling power allocation is a power allocation scheme that optimizes the energy efficiency by giving the power to the user which have good channel conditions. The user grouping method becomes the solution for carrier aggregation (CA) scheme that prevents edge cell user get the resources from the high-frequency carrier. This can prevent energy wastage in the transmission process. This power control scheme and user grouping method can optimize the spectral and energy efficiency without increasing the time complexity of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]