Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Delay-Sensitive Communications: A Cross-Layer Approach

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has attracted great attention in the fifth-generation (5G) system to meet the rapidly increasing demand on quality of service (QoS). Among various QoS requirements, the urgent latency requirement has been expected to be provided for the delay-sensitive applications. In this paper, the delay-optimal uplink transmission in NOMA is studied over a block fading channel based on a cross-layer design, by which...