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Enhancing NOMA Handover Performance Using Hybrid AI-Driven Modulated Deterministic Sequences

Networking and Internet Architecture 2026-02-17 v1

Abstract

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is an information-theoretical approach used in 5G networks to improve spectral efficiency, but it is prone to interference during handovers. In this work, we propose a hybrid method that combines Gold-Walsh modulated sequences with Deep Q-Networks (DQN) to intelligently manage interference during NOMA handovers. This method optimizes sequence selection and power allocation dynamically. As a result, it achieves a 95.2\% handover success rate, which is an improvement of up to 23.1 percentage points. It also delivers up to 28\% throughput gain and reduces interference by up to 41\% in various mobility scenarios. All improvements are statistically significant (p<0.001p < 0.001). The DQN trains in 4,200±4004{,}200 \pm 400 episodes with a complexity of O(NlogN+dh+logB)O(N \log N + d \cdot h + \log B) and can be deployed in real-time.

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@article{arxiv.2602.13202,
  title  = {Enhancing NOMA Handover Performance Using Hybrid AI-Driven Modulated Deterministic Sequences},
  author = {Sumita Majhi and G Vasantha Reddy and Pinaki Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13202},
  year   = {2026}
}
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