A New Multiple Access Technique for 5G: Power Domain Sparse Code Multiple Access (PSMA)

In this paper, a new approach for multiple access in the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks called power domain sparse code multiple access (PSMA) is proposed. In PSMA, we adopt both the power domain and the code domain to transmit multiple users' signals over a subcarrier simultaneously. In such a model, the same sparse code multiple-access (SCMA) codebook can be used by multiple users, where, for these users, the power domain...