Joint Beam-Hopping Scheduling and Power Allocation in NOMA-Assisted Satellite Systems

In this paper, we investigate potential synergies of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and beam hopping (BH) for multi-beam satellite systems. The coexistence of BH and NOMA provides time-power-domain flexibilities in mitigating a practical mismatch effect between offered capacity and requested...

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Published in:IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference : [proceedings] : WCNC pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors: Wang, Anyue, Lei, Lei, Lagunas, Eva, Chatzinotas, Symeon, Neira, Ana Isabel Perez, Ottersten, Bjorn
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 29.03.2021
Subjects:
beam hopping
Benchmark testing
Conferences
mixed-integer conic programming
multi-beam satellite systems
NOMA
Processor scheduling
Programming
resource allocation
Resource management
Satellites
ISSN:1558-2612
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Summary:In this paper, we investigate potential synergies of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and beam hopping (BH) for multi-beam satellite systems. The coexistence of BH and NOMA provides time-power-domain flexibilities in mitigating a practical mismatch effect between offered capacity and requested traffic per beam. We formulate the joint BH scheduling and NOMA-based power allocation problem as mixed-integer non-convex programming. We reveal the exponential-conic structure for the original problem, and reformulate the problem to the format of mixed-integer conic programming (MICP), where the optimum can be obtained by exponential-complexity algorithms. A greedy scheme is proposed to solve the problem on a timeslot-by-timeslot basis with polynomial-time complexity. Numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed efficient suboptimal algorithm in reducing the matching error by 62.57% in average over the OMA scheme and achieving a good trade-off between computational complexity and performance compared to the optimal solution.
ISSN:1558-2612
DOI:10.1109/WCNC49053.2021.9417306