This paper proposes a class of novel progressive edge growth-based codebooks for downlink sparse code multiple access(SCMA)systems.In the first scheme,we propose to progressively design the codebooks of each resource ...This paper proposes a class of novel progressive edge growth-based codebooks for downlink sparse code multiple access(SCMA)systems.In the first scheme,we propose to progressively design the codebooks of each resource node(RN)instead of rotating a mother constellation(MC)as in the conventional SCMA works.In the other one,based on the MC,a multi-resources rotated codebooks are proposed to improve the performance of the superimposed constellations.The resultant codebooks are respectively referred to as the resource edge multidimensional codebooks(REMC)and the user edge multi-dimensional codebooks(UEMC).Additionally,we delve into the detailed design of the MC and the superimposed constellation.Then,we pay special attention to the application of the proposed schemes to challenging design cases,particularly for the high dimensional,high rate,and irregular codebooks,where the corresponding simplified schemes are proposed to reduce the complexity of codebook design.Finally,simulation results are presented to demonstrate the superiority of our progressive edge growth-based schemes.The numerical results indicate that the proposed codebooks significantly outperform the stateof-the-art codebooks.In addition,we also show that the proposed REMC codebooks outperform in the lower signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)regime,whereas the UEMC codebooks exhibit better performance at higher SNRs.展开更多
文摘This paper proposes a class of novel progressive edge growth-based codebooks for downlink sparse code multiple access(SCMA)systems.In the first scheme,we propose to progressively design the codebooks of each resource node(RN)instead of rotating a mother constellation(MC)as in the conventional SCMA works.In the other one,based on the MC,a multi-resources rotated codebooks are proposed to improve the performance of the superimposed constellations.The resultant codebooks are respectively referred to as the resource edge multidimensional codebooks(REMC)and the user edge multi-dimensional codebooks(UEMC).Additionally,we delve into the detailed design of the MC and the superimposed constellation.Then,we pay special attention to the application of the proposed schemes to challenging design cases,particularly for the high dimensional,high rate,and irregular codebooks,where the corresponding simplified schemes are proposed to reduce the complexity of codebook design.Finally,simulation results are presented to demonstrate the superiority of our progressive edge growth-based schemes.The numerical results indicate that the proposed codebooks significantly outperform the stateof-the-art codebooks.In addition,we also show that the proposed REMC codebooks outperform in the lower signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)regime,whereas the UEMC codebooks exhibit better performance at higher SNRs.