Downlink network-coded multiple access with diverse power

Abstract

Normally, in the downlink Network-Coded Multiple Access (NCMA) system, the same power is allocated to different users. However, equal power allocation is unsuitable for some scenarios, such as when user devices have different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Hence, we study the power allocation in the downlink NCMA system in this paper, and propose a downlink Network-Coded Multiple Access with Diverse Power (NCMA-DP), wherein different amounts of power are allocated to different users. In terms of the Bit Error Rate (BER) of the multi-user decoder, and the number of packets required to correctly decode the message, the performance of the user with more allocated power is greatly improved compared to the Conventional NCMA (NCMA-C). Meanwhile, the performance of the user with less allocated power is still much better than NCMA-C. Furthermore, the overall throughput of NCMA-DP is greatly improved compared to that of NCMA-C. The simulation results demonstrate the remarkable performance of the proposed NCMA-DP.