Angle-Domain Hybrid Beamforming-Based mmWave Massive MIMO-NOMA Systems

Israa Khaled (1, 2) , Ammar El Falou (3) , Charlotte Langlais (1, 2) , Michel Jezequel (2, 4) , Bachar Elhassan (5)

1 Lab-STICC_COSYDE - Equipe Communication System Design
2 IMT Atlantique - MEE - Département Mathematical and Electrical Engineering
3 KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [Saudi Arabia]
4 Lab-STICC_2AI - Equipe Algorithm Architecture Interactions
5 ULFG - Faculty of Engineering [Lebanese University]

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) large-scale antenna arrays (LSAAs) systems play a vital role in increasing the beamforming (BF) gain and acquiring highly directional propagation. Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been integrated into these systems to manage massive connectivity and achieve spectral-efficient communications. This paper focuses on angle-domain (AD) hybrid beamforming (BF) for mmWave LSAAs and NOMA systems, thanks to the low complexity, power consumption, and channel estimation overhead. However, with limited radio-frequency chains, the hybrid BF-based single-beam (SB)-NOMA scheme generating a single beam to serve the NOMA users fails to exploit the multiuser diversity due to narrow beams with LSAAs. To tackle this limitation, we design schemes offering additional degrees of freedom. More importantly, they require only the knowledge of angular information and are suitable for either linear or rectangular antenna arrays, unlike those proposed in the literature. The first scheme exploits the time-domain resources to schedule groups having high spatial interference within distinct time slots. To minimize the need for fast and precise synchronization when applying time division multiple access (TDMA) with mmWave NOMA, we leverage the multi-beam (MB)-NOMA framework. And we propose a joint SB-and MB-NOMA scheme to benefit from NOMA multiuser diversity, whatever the cell load and the users' positions. Using the New York University channel simulator (NYUSIM), we further validate the performance of the proposed schemes compared to the solution proposed in the literature and others using fully digital BF. Specifically, the proposed TDMA-based scheme achieves a sum-rate gain of up to 83% over the TDMA-based one existing in the literature. Moreover, we verify the superiority of applying both SB-and MB-NOMA instead of only MB-NOMA. INDEX TERMS Millimeter-wave communications, massive multiple-input multiple-output, hybrid beamforming, non-orthogonal multiple access, angle-domain information.

Mots clés: Millimeter-wave communications; massive multiple-input multiple-output; hybrid beamforming; non-orthogonal multiple access; angle-domain information

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Israa Khaled, Ammar El Falou, Charlotte Langlais, Michel Jezequel, Bachar Elhassan. Angle-Domain Hybrid Beamforming-Based mmWave Massive MIMO-NOMA Systems. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2023, 4, pp.684-699. ⟨10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3254157⟩. ⟨hal-04050365⟩