Energy-Efficient Utility Function-Based Channel Resource Allocation and Power Control for D2D Clusters With NOMA Enablement in Cellular Networks

Abstract

Device-to-device(D2D) communication combined with non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) can further improve the quality of service for future communications systems and increase spectrum utilization and connection density in cellular networks. In this paper, an effective power allocation scheme is designed to optimize the performance of a D2D communication system based on NOMA for imperfect Successive Interference Cancellation(SIC) decoding. To solve the non-convexity of the problem due to integer constraints and coupling variables, an alternate optimization algorithm was designed to obtain the optimal solution of each subproblem by Lagrange duality analysis and the sub-gradient descent method. Finally, the numerical simulation results demonstrate the performance advantages of the proposed joint optimization algorithm for channel resource allocation and power control in energy efficiency.