Uplink Cooperative NOMA for Cellular-Connected UAV
Weidong Mei,Rui Zhang +1 more
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This paper proposes to apply the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique to the uplink communication from a UAV to cellular BSs, under spectrum sharing with the existing ground users, and investigates the optimal design of cooperative NOMA and air-ground performance tradeoff.Abstract:
Aerial–ground interference mitigation is a challenging issue in the emerging cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Due to the strong line-of-sight (LoS) air-to-ground (A2G) channels, the UAV may impose/suffer more severe uplink/downlink interference to/from the cellular base stations (BSs) as compared to the ground users. To tackle this challenge, we propose in this paper to apply the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique to the uplink communication from a UAV to cellular BSs, under spectrum sharing with the existing ground users. However, for our considered system, traditional NOMA with only local interference cancellation (IC) at individual BSs, termed non-cooperative NOMA, may provide very limited gain compared to the orthogonal multiple access (OMA). This is because there are a large number of co-channel BSs due to the LoS A2G channels, and thus, the rate performance of the UAV is severely limited by the BS with the worst channel condition with the UAV. To mitigate the UAV's uplink interference without significantly compromising its achievable rate, a new cooperative NOMA scheme is proposed in this paper by exploiting the existing backhaul links among BSs. Specifically, some BSs with better channel conditions are selected to decode the UAV's signals first, and then forward the decoded signals to their backhaul-connected BSs for IC. To investigate the optimal design of cooperative NOMA and air-ground performance tradeoff, we maximize the weighted sum-rate of the UAV and ground users by jointly optimizing the UAV's rate and power allocations over multiple resource blocks as well as their associated BSs. However, this problem is difficult to be solved optimally. To obtain useful insights, we first consider two special cases with egoistic and altruistic transmission strategies of the UAV, respectively, and solve their corresponding problems optimally. Next, we consider the general case and propose an efficient suboptimal solution by applying the alternating optimization and successive convex approximation techniques. Numerical results show that the proposed cooperative NOMA scheme yields significant throughput gains than those by the traditional OMA as well as the non-cooperative NOMA benchmark.read more
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