Exploiting Constructive Interference Precoding for MISO-NOMA Networks

As a symbol-level precoding scheme, constructive interference precoding (CIP) has been demonstrated its superiority in multi-antenna orthogonal multiple access (OMA) systems. By utilizing both the channel state information (CSI) and data symbols, harmful multi-user interference can convert to useful reception power via the well-designed CIP precoder. When CIP meets non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) whose bottleneck is usually at the weaker user side, this paper is the first to propose CIP to enhance the downlink MISO-NOMA networks, by making the desired signal of the stronger user in a typical NOMA pair constructive to the weaker user. In our CIP-NOMA scheme, we properly design the CIP precoder for transmit power minimization at the base station (BS), subject to signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) requirements of NOMA users. By replacing the non-convex constraints with convex linear matrix inequalities, we optimally obtain the precoding solutions for our CIP-NOMA scheme by semidefinite relaxation (SDR) method. Moreover, as compared to conventional NOMA schemes, we theoretically prove that once two NOMA users possess distinct channel gains, our optimized CIP-NOMA scheme always uses smaller transmit power to reach the target SINR thresholds. We further extend our CIP-NOMA scheme to the scenario of imperfect CSI, by further addressing the hidden CSI errors. Finally, we run extensive simulations to verify that our proposed CIP-NOMA scheme greatly outperforms zero-forcing (ZF), conventional NOMA and conventional CIP schemes.