Cache-aided MISO-NOMA concept

Coded caching, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are challenging and attractive technologies for rapidly emerging mobile networks, offering numerous significant advantages. The literature shows that a match between two diverse techniques outperforms the current existing benefits. This paper proposes a new joint scheme assuming cooperation between all three methods. Namely, a multiple-input single-output (MISO) base station equipped with multiple antennas serves a group of cached-aided end-users using the NOMA pairing approach to deliver requested files. Using MISO allows simultaneous transmissions; NOMA uses SIC (successive interference cancellation) to decode the signal consisting of more messages; coded caching speeds up the interference elimination and file decoding by applying CIC (cache-enabled interference cancellation). The zero-forcing method deals with inter-pair interference cancellation. This newly proposed concept improves the achievable sum rate for file delivery compared with other joint conventional constructions. Hence, simulation results show that the schemes using join CIC and SIC decoding processes exceed the sum-rate performance. Copyright © 2024 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.