Performance Analysis of Multi-user NOMA Wireless-Powered mMTC Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Approach

Thanh Luan Nguyen, Tri Nhu Do, Georges Kaddoum

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to improve the connectivity, scalability, and energy efficiency of machine-type communication (MTC) networks with different types of MTC devices (MTCDs), namely Type-I and Type-II MTCDs, which have different communication purposes. To this end, we propose two transmission schemes called connectivityoriented machine-type communication (CoM) and quality-oriented machine-type communication (QoM), which take into account the stochastic geometry-based deployment and the random active/inactive status of MTCDs. Specifically, in the proposed schemes, the active Type-I MTCDs operate using a novel Bernoulli random process-based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) architecture. Next, utilizing multi-user power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (PD-NOMA), each active Type-I MTCD can simultaneously communicate with another Type-I MTCD and a scalable number of Type-II MTCDs. In the performance analysis of the proposed schemes, we prove that the true distribution of the received power at a Type-II MTCD in the QoM scheme can be approximated by the Singh-Maddala distribution. Exploiting this unique statistical finding, we derive approximate closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) and sum-throughput of massive MTC (mMTC) networks. Through numerical results, we show that the proposed schemes provide a considerable sum-throughput gain over conventional mMTC networks.

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@article{DoTCOM2021,
	author = {Nguyen, Thanh Luan and Do, Tri Nhu and Kaddoum, Georges.},
	title = {Performance {A}nalysis of {M}ulti-user {NOMA} {W}ireless-{P}owered m{MTC} {N}etworks: {A} {S}tochastic {G}eometry {A}pproach},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Communications},
	year = {2022},
}