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Reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered communication (RIS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) are promising candidates for future generations of wireless networks. The former enhances the transmission environments, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar

Grant-free sparse code multiple access (GF-SCMA) is considered to be a promising multiple access candidate for future wireless networks. In this paper, we focus on characterizing the performance of uplink GF-SCMA schemes in a network with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ke Lai , Jing Lei , Yansha Deng , Lei Wen , Gaojie Chen

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a class of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) that is proposed to support uplink machine-type communication services. In an SCMA system, designing multidimensional constellation plays an important…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Monirosharieh Vameghestahbanati , Ian Marsland , Ramy H. Gohary , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) is one of the promising candidates for new radio access interface. The new generation communication system is expected to support massive user access with high capacity. However, there are numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Samira Jaber , Wen Chen , Kunlun Wang , Qingqing Wu

The design of efficient sparse codebooks in sparse code multiple access (SCMA) system have attracted tremendous research attention in the past few years. This paper proposes a novel nonlinear SCMA (NL-SCMA) that can subsume the conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA), which helps improve spectrum efficiency (SE) and enhance connectivity, has been proposed as a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme for 5G systems. In SCMA, codebook design determines system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Xuewan Zhang , Dalong Zhang , Liuqing Yang , Gangtao Han , Hsiao-Hwa Chen , Di Zhang

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) has been recently proposed for the future wireless networks, which allows non-orthogonal spectrum resource sharing and enables system overloading. In this paper, we apply SCMA into device-to-device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Lei Liu , Yan Shi , Jiandong Li

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) are considered as two efficient techniques to provide both massive connectivity and high spectrum efficiency for future machine-type wireless networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising technique for the enabling of massive connectivity in future machine-type communication networks, but it suffers from a limited diversity order which is a bottleneck for significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Qu Luo , Zilong Liu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao

Next-generation wireless networks require higher spectral efficiency and lower latency to meet the demands of various upcoming applications. Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes are introduced in the literature for 5G and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Sanjeev Sharma , Kuntal Deka

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) has emerged as the most sought-after modulation technique in a high mobility scenario. Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is an attractive code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Anna Thomas , Kuntal Deka , P. Raviteja , Sanjeev Sharma

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh

Despite being the subject of a growing body of research, non-orthogonal multiple access has failed to garner sufficient support to be included in modern standards. One of the more promising approaches to non-orthogonal multiple access is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Erin E. Tripp , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a promising technique for efficient interference management in next-generation wireless networks. While most existing studies focus on downlink and single-cell designs, the modeling and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xinyi Guo , Li You , Qiong Liu , Xiqi Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia

Sparsely spread code division multiple access (SCDMA) is a non-orthogonal superposition coding scheme that permits a base station simultaneously communicates with multiple users over a common channel. The detection performance of an SCDMA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Guanghui Song , Xianbin Wang , Jun Cheng

In this letter, a novel variation of sparse code multiple access (SCMA), called codeword position index based SCMA (CPI-SCMA), is proposed. In this scheme, the information is transmitted not only by the codewords in M point SCMA codebook,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Ke Lai , Lei Wen , Jing Lei , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Amine Maaref

This paper proposes a novel hybrid-domain (HD) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) approach to support a larger number of uplink users than the recently proposed code-domain NOMA approach, i.e., sparse code multiple access (SCMA). HD-NOMA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Chen Quan , Animesh Yadav , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney , H. Vincent Poor

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA), a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme, has been introduced as a key 5G technology to improve spectral efficiency. In this work, we propose SCMA to enable open-loop coordinated multipoint (CoMP) joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Usa Vilaipornsawai , Hosein Nikopour , Alireza Bayesteh , Jianglie Ma

This paper conceives a novel sparse code multiple access (SCMA) codebook design which is motivated by the strong need for providing ultra-low decoding complexity and good error performance in downlink Internet-of-things (IoT) networks, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Qu Luo , Zilong Liu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Yi Ma , Amine Maaref

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) and Blind Interference Alignment (BIA) are key enablers for multi-user communication, yet each suffers from distinct limitations: SCMA faces high complexity and limited multiplexing gain, while BIA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jianjian Wu , Chi-Tsun Cheng , Qingfeng Zhou , Jianlin Liang , Jinke Wu