Precoding design of NOMA-enabled D2D communication system with low latency

This letter investigated a device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular system, where one wireless device (WD) can directly transmit information to two inner users under non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) protocol with low latency. Considering the user fairness and reliability, both users can adopt successive interference cancellation (SIC) to decode information by the given decoding order. Subject to predefined quality-of-service (QoS) requirement and the constraint of WD’s transmit power, the maximal rate of latter decoded information and the corresponding precoding vectors are obtained by applying the technique of semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and the Langrangian duality method. Then, the suboptimal scheme based on singular value decomposition (SVD) is also proposed with a lower computational complexity. Numerical simulation shows that with the design of proper precoding vectors D2D communication system assisted by NOMA has a better performance than orthogonal multiple access (OMA).