Multiplicity estimating random access protocol for resource efficiency in contention based NOMA

Abstract

Emerging technologies enforce strict requirements on future wireless networks such as massive connectivity that cannot be supported with scheduled access. Contention based Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access is a novel technique to overcome strict massive connectivity requirements by efficient use of wireless resources. However, most of the solutions proposed in this direction assumes different loads which would degrade the performance significantly if they would not hold. To stress these assumptions a resource efficiency metric is defined and state of the art solutions are evaluated for varying load regarding this metric. It is shown that the resource efficiency problem in the state of the art can be improved with multiplicity estimation, and hence, we propose Multiplicity estimating Random Access protocol, that adapts to the dynamic loads. This adaptation is evaluated through analytical calculation against the state of the art and it is shown that resource efficiency against with a slight decrease in the metric any load from 1 up to > 10(3) users is supported. In addition, we show how this protocol can be dimensioned and integrated to contention based NOMA.