The massive connectivity and limited energy pose significant challenges to deploy the enormous devices in energy-efficient and environmentally friendly in the Internet of Things(IoT).Motivated by these challenges,this...The massive connectivity and limited energy pose significant challenges to deploy the enormous devices in energy-efficient and environmentally friendly in the Internet of Things(IoT).Motivated by these challenges,this paper investigates the energy efficiency(EE)maximization problem for downlink cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access(C-NOMA)systems with hardware impairments(HIs).The base station(BS)communicates with several users via a half-duplex(HD)amplified-and-forward(AF)relay.First,we formulate the EE maximization problem of the system under HIs by jointly optimizing transmit power and power allocated coefficient(PAC)at BS,and transmit power at the relay.The original EE maximization problem is a non-convex problem,which is challenging to give the optimal solution directly.First,we use fractional programming to convert the EE maximization problem as a series of subtraction form subproblems.Then,variable substitution and block coordinate descent(BCD)method are used to handle the sub-problems.Next,a resource allocation algorithm is proposed to maximize the EE of the systems.Finally,simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the downlink cooperative orthogonal multiple access(C-OMA)scheme.展开更多
基金This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61701064Chongqing Natural Science Foundation under Grant cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0264+1 种基金Sichuan ScienceTechnology Program under Grant 2022YFQ0017.
文摘The massive connectivity and limited energy pose significant challenges to deploy the enormous devices in energy-efficient and environmentally friendly in the Internet of Things(IoT).Motivated by these challenges,this paper investigates the energy efficiency(EE)maximization problem for downlink cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access(C-NOMA)systems with hardware impairments(HIs).The base station(BS)communicates with several users via a half-duplex(HD)amplified-and-forward(AF)relay.First,we formulate the EE maximization problem of the system under HIs by jointly optimizing transmit power and power allocated coefficient(PAC)at BS,and transmit power at the relay.The original EE maximization problem is a non-convex problem,which is challenging to give the optimal solution directly.First,we use fractional programming to convert the EE maximization problem as a series of subtraction form subproblems.Then,variable substitution and block coordinate descent(BCD)method are used to handle the sub-problems.Next,a resource allocation algorithm is proposed to maximize the EE of the systems.Finally,simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the downlink cooperative orthogonal multiple access(C-OMA)scheme.