2024/03/25 by Zhiguo Ding, Ding, Zhiguo · 2 citations
Engineering · #Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Information Theory (cs.IT) #IoT Networks and Protocols #Optical Wireless Communication Technologies #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.16498
openalex publication_date 2024/03/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Hybrid non-orthogonal multiple access (H-NOMA) has recently received significant attention as a general framework of multiple access, where both conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and pure NOMA are its special cases. This paper focuses on the application of H-NOMA to ambient Internet of Things (IoT) with energy-constrained devices, where a new backscatter communication (BackCom) assisted H-NOMA uplink scheme is developed. Resource allocation for H-NOMA uplink transmission is also considered, where an overall power minimization problem is formulated. Insightful understandings for the key features of BackCom assisted H-NOMA and its difference from conventional H-NOMA are illustrated by developing analytical results for the two-user special case. For the general multi-user scenario, two algorithms, one based on the branch-bound (BB) principle and the other based on successive convex approximation (SCA), are developed to realize different tradeoffs between the system performance and complexity. The numerical results are also provided to verify the accuracy of the developed analytical results and demonstrate the performance gain of H-NOMA over OMA.