Affiliation of Author(s):Beihang University

Teaching and Research Group:202 203

Journal:IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Place of Publication:US

Funded by:National Key R&D Program of China (No.2020YFB1807102)

Key Words:Mulitple access, lattice codes, multi-user detection, compute-forward, MIMO

Abstract:This paper studies a lattice-code based multiple-access (LCMA) framework, and develops a package of processing techniques that are essential to its practical implementation. In the uplink, K users encode their messages with the same ring coded modulation of 2m-PAM signaling. With it, the integer sum of multiple codewords belongs to the n-dimension lattice of the base code. Such property enables efficient algebraic binning for computing linear combinations of K users’ messages. For the receiver, we devise two new algorithms, based on linear physical-layer network coding and linear filtering, to calculate the symbol-wise a posteriori probabilities (APPs) w.r.t. the K streams of linear codeword combinations. The resultant APP streams are forwarded to the q-ary belief-propagation decoders, which parallelly compute K streams of linear message combinations. Finally, by multiplying the inverse of the coefficient matrix, all users’ messages are recovered. Even with single-stage parallel processing, LCMA is shown to support a remarkably larger number of users and exhibits improved frame error rate (FER) relative to existing NOMA systems such as IDMA and SCMA. Further, we propose a new multi-stage LCMA receiver relying on generalized matrix inversion. With it, a near-capacity performance is demonstrated for a wide range of system loads. Numerical results demonstrate that the number of users that LCMA can support is no less than 350% of the length of the spreading sequence or number of receive antennas. Since LCMA relaxes receiver iteration, off-the-shelf channel codes in standards can be directly utilized, avoiding the compatibility and convergence issue of channel code and detector in IDMA and SCMA.

Indexed by:Journal paper

First-Level Discipline:Information and Communication Engineering

Document Type:J

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2022-09-30

Included Journals:SCI

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