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Carrier phase positioning technology is widely used in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) but not applied to wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) systems. Carrier phase technology has a high resolution, which can improve the positioning accuracy of wireless cellular networks. Applying the carrier phase to a wireless mobile positioning system has some problems, such as continuous phase tracking, accurate integer ambiguity resolution, positioning errors caused by non‐line‐of‐sight (NLOS) and so forth. This paper offers a positioning technique combining the time‐of‐arrival (TOA) and carrier phase to solve the above problems. Based on Bayesian theory, a two‐step position estimator is introduced in our scheme to solve the terminal position. Besides, an NLOS identification and suppression scheme is proposed to enhance the robustness of the algorithm. Experiments show that even in the NLOS environment, the joint positioning algorithm using TOA and carrier phase can effectively improve the positioning accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on the power allocation (PA) problem in code division multiple access (PDMA) networks with amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. We provide two wireless communication technical performance indexes, which are system throughput and outage probability. A multiobjective version of particle swarm optimization is proposed to solve Pareto-optimal solutions for optimal PA problems. A novel programming model is built based on improvement of constraint functions, and the accuracy and efficiency of solution can be improved via compact constraints. The technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution is proposed to balance the performance indicators, which include outage probability and system throughput. It has been calculated that the proposed approach for optimal PA is verified and performs better than a genetic algorithm approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A two-way relay non-orthogonal multiple access (TWR-NOMA) system is investigated, where two groups of NOMA users exchange messages with the aid of one half-duplex decode-and-forward relay. Since the signal-plus-interference-to-noise ratios of NOMA signals mainly depend on effective successive interference cancellation (SIC) schemes, imperfect SIC (ipSIC), and perfect SIC (pSIC) are taken into account. In order to characterize the performance of TWR-NOMA systems, we first derive closed-form expressions for both exact and asymptotic outage probabilities of NOMA users’ signals with ipSIC/pSIC. Based on the derived results, the diversity order and throughput of the system are examined. Then, we study the ergodic rates of users’ signals by providing the asymptotic analysis in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes. Finally, numerical simulations are provided to verify the analytical results and show that: 1) TWR-NOMA is superior to TWR-OMA in terms of outage probability in low SNR regimes; 2) due to the impact of interference signal at the relay, error floors and throughput ceilings exist in outage probabilities, and ergodic rates for TWR-NOMA, respectively; and 3) in delay-limited transmission mode, TWR-NOMA with ipSIC and pSIC have almost the same energy efficiency. However, in delay-tolerant transmission mode, TWR-NOMA with pSIC is capable of achieving larger energy efficiency compared with TWR-NOMA with ipSIC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a novel cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is proposed, where one near user is employed as decode-and-forward relaying switching between full-duplex (FD) and half-duplex (HD) mode to help a far user. Two representative cooperative relaying scenarios are investigated insightfully. The first scenario is that no direct link exists between the base station (BS) and far user. The second scenario is that the direct link exists between the BS and far user. To characterize the performance of potential gains brought by the FD NOMA in two considered scenarios, three performance metrics outage probability, ergodic rate, and energy efficiency are discussed. More particularly, we derive new closed-form expressions for both exact and asymptotic outage probabilities as well as delay-limited throughput for two NOMA users. Based on the derived results, the diversity orders achieved by users are obtained. We confirm that the use of direct link overcomes zero diversity order of far NOMA user inherent to FD relaying. In addition, we derive new closed-form expressions for asymptotic ergodic rates. Based on these, the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) slopes of two users for FD NOMA are obtained. Simulation results demonstrate that: 1) the FD NOMA is superior to the HD NOMA in terms of outage probability and ergodic sum rate in the low SNR region; and 2) in delay-limited transmission mode, the FD NOMA has higher energy efficiency than the HD NOMA in the low SNR region; However, in delay-tolerant transmission mode, the system energy efficiency of the HD NOMA exceeds the FD NOMA in the high SNR region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wireless powered communication technology has a great potential to power low-power wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT) for real-time applications in future 5G networks, where age of information (AoI) plays a very important performance metric. This paper studies the system average AoI of a wireless powered network, where a wireless-powered user harvests energy from a wireless power source (WPS) and then transmits data packets to its access point (AP) by using the harvested energy. The user generates data packets with some probability and adopts the first-come-first-served (FCFS) service policy. For such a system, by using the queuing theory and the probability models, we derive a closed-form expression of the system average AoI. We also formulate an optimization problem to minimize the AoI by optimizing the data packet generating probability, and find its solution by simple calculation and search. Simulation results demonstrate the correctness of our obtained analytical results. It also shows that, when the total distance of the two hops is fixed, the system average AoI increases linearly with the increment of the distance of the first hop, and a smaller data packet generating probability should be selected to match a bigger first-hop distance for achieving a smaller system average AoI. Moreover, a smaller data packet size also contributes to a smaller system average AoI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) as an efficient method of radio resource sharing has its roots in network information theory. For generations of wireless communication systems design, orthogonal multiple access schemes in the time, frequency, or code domain have been the main choices due to the limited processing capability in the transceiver hardware, as well as the modest traffic demands in both latency and connectivity. However, for the next generation radio systems, given its vision to connect everything and the much evolved hardware capability, NOMA has been identified as a promising technology to help achieve all the targets in system capacity, user connectivity, and service latency. This article provides a systematic overview of the state-of-theart design of the NOMA transmission based on a unified transceiver design framework, the related standardization progress, and some promising use cases in future cellular networks, based on which interested researchers can get a quick start in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]