Design of Adaptive Hybrid Downlink NOMA-TDMA for Visible Light Communications Networks

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Autori principali: Hoang, Tuan A., Nguyen, Chuyen T., Pham, Thanh V.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Hoang, Tuan A.
Nguyen, Chuyen T.
Pham, Thanh V.
author_facet Hoang, Tuan A.
Nguyen, Chuyen T.
Pham, Thanh V.
contents This paper proposes an adaptive hybrid non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme for multi-user visible light communication (VLC) networks, aiming to enhance users' sum-rate performance while maintaining low complexity. In the proposed scheme, users are divided into groups where each group is served in a different time slot using TDMA. Within each group, up to two users can be served simultaneously using NOMA. A central challenge lies in determining which users should be paired together for NOMA, as the effectiveness of successive interference cancellation (SIC) employed by NOMA depends on the difference between users' channel gains. To address this, for a pair of users, we determine the range of their channel gain ratio within which the pair benefits more from NOMA or TDMA. Identifying the lower and upper bounds of this range is formulated as two optimization problems which are solved efficiently using the Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) method. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional hybrid NOMA-TDMA method under different numbers of users and transmit LED powers.
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spellingShingle Design of Adaptive Hybrid Downlink NOMA-TDMA for Visible Light Communications Networks
Hoang, Tuan A.
Nguyen, Chuyen T.
Pham, Thanh V.
Systems and Control
This paper proposes an adaptive hybrid non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme for multi-user visible light communication (VLC) networks, aiming to enhance users' sum-rate performance while maintaining low complexity. In the proposed scheme, users are divided into groups where each group is served in a different time slot using TDMA. Within each group, up to two users can be served simultaneously using NOMA. A central challenge lies in determining which users should be paired together for NOMA, as the effectiveness of successive interference cancellation (SIC) employed by NOMA depends on the difference between users' channel gains. To address this, for a pair of users, we determine the range of their channel gain ratio within which the pair benefits more from NOMA or TDMA. Identifying the lower and upper bounds of this range is formulated as two optimization problems which are solved efficiently using the Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) method. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional hybrid NOMA-TDMA method under different numbers of users and transmit LED powers.
title Design of Adaptive Hybrid Downlink NOMA-TDMA for Visible Light Communications Networks
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04380