On the Performance of NOMA-Assisted Overlay Multiuser Cognitive Satellite-Terrestrial Networks

Abstract

In this letter, we investigate the performance of an overlay cognitive satellite-terrestrial network comprising a primary satellite source with its multiple terrestrial receivers and a secondary transmitter-receiver pair on the ground. Herein, the primary satellite source employs a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme to simultaneously serve its all users, while the secondary transmitter assists the primary communication through cooperative relaying technique in exchange for spectrum access. For this overall set-up, we obtain the closed-form expressions for the outage probability of primary satellite network and secondary terrestrial network by adopting pertinent heterogeneous fading models. Further, we derive the asymptotic outage behaviour at high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) for the primary and secondary networks, and thereby calculate the achievable diversity orders. Our analytical findings are corroborated through various numerical and simulation results.