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In this paper, we investigate a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission scheme for hybrid millimeter-wave (mmWave) system and study its user grouping and power allocation. In order to maximize the weighted sum-rate (WSR) of the system, we first propose a user grouping algorithm based on min-sum message passing (MSMP) strategy under the limited number of radio frequency (RF) chains. Then, with the zero-forcing (ZF) digital precoding, we propose a power allocation scheme for multiple-RF-chain NOMA (MRFC-NOMA) structure based on a non-convex transformation method, and design a low-complexity algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed joint user grouping and power allocation method with lower complexity can achieve better WSR performance than the traditional schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the proliferation of mobile devices, provisioning of massive connectivity has become a major challenge for future networks. The combination of millimeter wave (mmWave) with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) provides a promising solution to massive connectivity. However, the security issue therein cannot be ignored due to the openness of wireless channels. To overcome the security challenge in mmWave-NOMA based networks, the nonorthogonal interference can be exploited to improve the security. In this paper, we propose a novel mmWave-NOMA framework where the users are classified as secure users (SUs) and common users (CUs), to satisfy their heterogeneous security service needs with the presence of randomly located eavesdroppers. According to their channel disparity, the NOMA users with stronger channel gains are deemed as SUs for better secrecy performance, while the remaining ones are served as CUs. To further enhance the security, hybrid precoding for SUs is designed to strengthen the desired signal and reduce interference. In addition, to reduce the complexity and satisfy the diverse demands, user grouping and power allocation are jointly optimized to maximize the sum rate of CUs subject to the SUs’ requirements. To solve the intractable non-convex problem, we decompose it into two subproblems, i.e., user grouping and power optimization, and a hybrid SU-CU grouping algorithm and a successive convex approximation based algorithm are proposed to solve them, respectively. Finally, simulation results are provided to show the advantages of the proposed scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and millimeter wave (mmWave) are two key enabling technologies for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks and beyond. In this paper, we consider uplink communications with a hybrid beamforming structure and focus on improving the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-NOMA systems with enhanced user grouping and power allocation. It is noted that the optimization of the SE/EE is a challenging task due to the non-linear programming nature of the corresponding problem involving user grouping, beam selection, and power allocation. Our idea is to decompose the overall optimization problem into a mixed integer problem comprised of user grouping and beam selection only, followed by a continuous problem involving power allocation and digital beamforming design. Exploiting the directionality property of mmWave channels, we first propose a novel initial agglomerative nesting (AGNES) based user grouping algorithm by taking advantage of the channel correlations. To avoid the prohibitively high complexity of the brute-force search approach and to address the overlapping beam problem, we propose two suboptimal low-complexity user grouping and beam selection schemes, the two-stage direct AGNES (D-AGNES) scheme and the joint successive AGNES (S-AGNES) scheme. We also introduce the quadratic transform (QT) to recast the non-convex power allocation optimization problem into a convex one subject to a minimum required data rate of each user. The continuous problem is solved by iteratively optimizing the power and the digital beamforming. Extensive simulation results have shown that our proposed mmWave-NOMA design outperforms the conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scenario and the state-of-art NOMA schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the application of nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in millimeter-Wave (mmWave) communications to address resource allocation issues for multiuser downlink transmission. Inspired by the K-means clustering algorithm, a NOMA user grouping policy is first employed in accordance with the channel correlation between users. The first-stage decoding order for each NOMA group is then determined by merely utilizing the users’ channel gain to formulate a joint power allocation and hybrid beamforming optimization problem. Specifically, we use signal-to-leakage-plus-noise ratio (SLNR) as the performance index of the optimization problem to reduce the computational complexity, because it can decouple the design of the beamforming and power allocation issues so they can be executed iteratively. Under given beamforming matrix, the power allocation issue is expressed as a quadratic programming (QP) problem, and then transformed into a convex problem by introducing an auxiliary-positive real variable to solve through the Lagrange multiplier method. On the contrary, the beamforming optimization problem is non-convex and very difficult to solve due to the constant modulus constraints in the hybrid architecture. However, the optimum solution of the ideal full-digital beamforming can be acquired primarily by generalized eigenvalue decomposition (GED). In this condition, two hybrid beamforming algorithms are proposed, in which normalized phase matching and equal gain transmission are performed respectively in the analog domain. On this basis, a second-stage decoding order can be employed according to the effective channel gain of users to perform successive interference cancellation (SIC) successfully. Numerical results show that the proposed joint power allocation and hybrid beamforming algorithms are superior to the classical mmWave-NOMA and orthogonal multiple access (OMA) schemes not only in lower implementation complexity, but also in better spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]