Fairly Power Allocation Scheme in Downlink NOMA Systems

Abstract

The minimum rate requirements of users are not taken into consideration in the existing power allocation schemes for maximum fairness of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. For this problem, the poa power allocation scheme for fairly improving user rate in NOMA systems is proposed. Firstly, the minimum power required for each cluster is calculated based on channel conditions and rate requirement for each user. Secondly, in the case of meeting the minimum rate requirements of all users, the power allocation optimization problem of improving each user’s rate fairly is established with the constraints of minimum power required by each cluster and the total power required by all clusters. Finally, the power allocation scheme, which satisfies the minimum rate demand of the user and maximizes the user's improved minimum rate, is obtained by adjusting the power of the part clusters. The simulation results show that when the minimum rate requirements of users are different, the increased rates of users and the outage probabilities of the proposed scheme both outperform these of the existing schemes in the same scenario.