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A Comparative Analysis of Diversity Combining Techniques for Repetitive Transmissions in Time Spreading Scma Systems
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2024) Ulgen, Oguz; Şadi, Yalçın; Tufekci, Tolga Kagan; Erküçük, Serhat; Sadi, Yalcin; Baykaş, Tunçer; Erkucuk, Serhat; Anpalagan, Alagan; Baykas, Tuncer
Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) is a recently introduced wireless communication network technology. There are various techniques in SCMA systems to increase the system's efficiency, and one of these techniques is time spreading. By adding repetitive transmission and time spreading into SCMA, it is shown in previous works that the Bit-Error-Rate (BER) results are improved convincingly. However, in the previous works, other diversity combining techniques have not been considered. This paper introduces a new approach to further improve the performance of repetitive transmission in SCMA systems with time spreading by adding imperialist competitive algorithm in diversity combining. Alongside, four different combining techniques; equal gain combining, maximal ratio combining, selection combining, and genetic algorithm are considered to bring comparative analysis to show the significance of the new technique. Results show that the proposed method offers up to 2.3 dB gain in terms of BER, under certain conditions.
Sparse Code Multiple Access With Time Spreading and Repetitive Transmissions
(Wiley, 2025) Ulgen, Oguz; Tufekci, Tolga Kagan; Sadi, Yalcin; Erkucuk, Serhat; Anpalagan, Alagan; Baykas, Tuncer
For the next-generation communication systems, to improve spectral efficiency and increase the data rate, new multiple access techniques have been investigated. Orthogonal multiple access techniques are widely used in traditional communication systems while nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA), proposed in 5G, has been a promising technology for satisfying the demand for future wireless communication networks. Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a code-domain NOMA method that provides diversity gain with signal constellation coding. However, to increase the performance of SCMA, there are only limited works provided in the literature in terms of codebook design and receiver design. In this paper, a new multiple-access model is proposed by applying various diversity techniques for downlink SCMA. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated with both computer simulations and theoretical analysis. Results show that the proposed model provides a 1.6 dB gain in terms of the bit error rate (BER) under the Rayleigh fading channel.