Title
Joint pairing and resource allocation for backhaul of small cells using NOMA
Abstract
•The main objective of this paper is to design and model a joint pairing and resource (bandwidth and power) allocation scheme for the backhaul of small cells. Bounds on the power coefficient of the near and far user are computed. The significant contributions of the proposed model are as follows:•We formulate the joint problem of resource allocation and pairing of backhaul of small cells. The resources considered are bandwidth and power coefficient for the near and far user. The problem takes into consideration the load of each small cell.•We propose a heuristic to solve the formulated problem as the problem is NP-hard. The main theme of the heuristic is based of the bound of power coefficients and exhaustive search for the small cell pairing.•We compare the performance of the proposed heuristic with a discretized exhaustive search strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jocs.2020.101197
Journal of Computational Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA),Small cells,User pairing,Backhaul pairing
Journal
45
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1877-7503
0
0.34
References 
Authors
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. Faizan Saeed100.34
Sobia Jangsher28812.56
moayad aloqaily333137.67
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi49518.16
Jalel Ben Othman500.34