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Assessing the Performance of NOMA in a Multi-Cell Context: A General Evaluation Framework

Bardou, Anthony  
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Gorce, Jean Marie
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Begin, Thomas
2025
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a Resource Sharing Mechanism (RSM) initially studied for 5G cellular networks and brought back to the agenda for 6G networks. While NOMA’s benefit at the level of a single cell has been properly established, assessing its performance at the scale of a cellular network remains an open research problem. This is mainly due to the inter-dependencies between scheduling, power control and inter-cell interference. Some algorithms have been proposed to optimize resource allocation in a multi-cell network, but they require a perfect and unrealistic knowledge of the whole channel states. In this paper, we leverage Bayesian Optimization techniques to build a versatile evaluation framework, able to assess the performance of multi-cell networks implementing a large variety of RSMs under a minimal set of assumptions. Subsequently, we illustrate how this evaluation framework can be used to compare the performance of several well-known RSMs under various fairness requirements and beamforming efficiencies. Our results show that, among the RSMs studied on a simple multi-cell network simulation, NOMA combined with a full reuse policy consistently emerges as the one able to achieve the highest end-users achievable rates under fairness constraints.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TWC.2025.3584178
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105010689263

Author(s)
Bardou, Anthony  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Gorce, Jean Marie

INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

Begin, Thomas

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Date Issued

2025

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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1

End page

1

Subjects

Bayesian Optimization

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Cellular Networks

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Fairness

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NOMA

Editorial or Peer reviewed

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EPFL

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INDY2  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

ANR-10-LABX-0070

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July 25, 2025
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