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arxiv: 1907.08381 · v1 · pith:GNPQU5BSnew · submitted 2019-07-19 · 💻 cs.IT · cs.NI· math.IT

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Spatial Modulation in Downlink Coordinated Multipoint Transmission

Denny Kusuma Hendraningrat , Bhaskara Narottama , Soo Young Shin This is my paper

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keywords non-orthogonal multiple accessspatial modulationcoordinated multipointjoint transmissioncell center usercell edge userergodic sum capacity
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JT-COMP NOMA-SM matches cell center capacity and exceeds cell edge capacity of VP-NOMA

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This paper proposes a joint transmission coordinated multipoint non-orthogonal multiple access system integrated with spatial modulation called JT-COMP NOMA-SM to enhance capacity. User capacities and ergodic sum capacity are analyzed for multiple coordinated base stations across several cells under imperfect successive interference cancellation and imperfect channel state information. The proposed system is compared via simulation and analysis to standard NOMA and JT-COMP VP-NOMA. It achieves the same cell center user capacity as JT-COMP VP-NOMA but higher cell edge user capacity than the other schemes, resulting in superior ergodic sum capacity. The system maintains cell edge user capacity better as the number of cells increases because spatial modulation mitigates inter-cell interference beyond Shannon upper bounds.

Core claim

The JT-COMP NOMA-SM system has the same cell center user capacity compared to JT-COMP VP-NOMA and a higher cell edge user capacity than the other schemes. Its ergodic sum capacity outperforms the other schemes due to the enhancement in cell edge user capacity. The proposed system can maintain cell edge user capacity better than the other schemes if the number of cells is increased because spatial modulation works beyond Shannon upper bounds to mitigate inter-cell interference.

What carries the argument

The JT-COMP NOMA-SM scheme that uses spatial modulation in joint transmission coordinated multipoint NOMA to mitigate inter-cell interference at cell edge users.

If this is right

  • The ergodic sum capacity is higher primarily due to cell edge user improvements.
  • Cell edge user capacity is preserved better when increasing the number of cells.
  • Imperfect successive interference cancellation and imperfect channel state information degrade the capacities of all schemes.
  • The scheme provides equal cell center user capacity to JT-COMP VP-NOMA while improving cell edge performance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This approach could be extended to other coordinated transmission scenarios where inter-cell interference limits performance.
  • Further analysis might consider the impact of different numbers of antennas used for spatial modulation.
  • The results suggest potential benefits for deploying such systems in dense urban cellular networks.

Load-bearing premise

Spatial modulation operates beyond Shannon upper bounds to mitigate inter-cell interference.

What would settle it

If increasing the number of cells causes the cell edge user capacity of JT-COMP NOMA-SM to drop at the same rate as in JT-COMP VP-NOMA, that would show the claimed maintenance advantage does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1907.08381 by Bhaskara Narottama, Denny Kusuma Hendraningrat, Soo Young Shin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: System model of the proposed JT-CoMP NOMA-SM. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: CEU capacity with respect to transmit SNR ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: CCU capacity with respect to transmit SNR ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: ESC with respect to transmit SNR (ρ); M = 3, N = 12, σε = 0.01, and γ = −25 dB. capacity can be maintained [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: ESC of the proposed system with respect to transmit SNR ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: ESC of the proposed system with respect to transmit SNR ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: CEU capacity with respect to the number of cells ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png] view at source ↗
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In this paper, a joint transmission coordinated multi-point based non-orthogonal multiple access (JT-COMP NOMA) combined with spatial modulation (SM), termed as JT-COMP NOMA-SM, is proposed to enhance capacity. User capacity and ergodic sum capacity (ESC) of M number coordinated multi-point base stations (COMP BSs) within N number of cells are analyzed by considering imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) and imperfect channel state information (CSI). The performances of the proposed syatem are compared with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and joint transmission coordinated multi-point combined with virtual user pairing based non-orthogonal multiple access (JT-COMP VP-NOMA) by both simulation and analysis. The results show that the proposed system has the same cell center user (CCU) capacity compared to JT-COMP VP-NOMA and a higher cell edge user (CEU) capacity than the other schemes. ESC of the proposed system outperforms the other schemes due to enhancing CEU capacity. Imperfect SIC and imperfect CSI may degrade capacity. The proposed system can maintain CEU capacity better than the other schemes if the number of cells is increased. It happens because SM works beyond Shannon upper bounds which can mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI).

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a joint transmission coordinated multi-point NOMA scheme combined with spatial modulation (JT-COMP NOMA-SM) for downlink transmission. It analyzes cell-center user (CCU) and cell-edge user (CEU) capacities as well as ergodic sum capacity (ESC) under imperfect SIC and CSI for M coordinated BSs across N cells. Through analysis and simulations, it claims the scheme achieves the same CCU capacity as JT-COMP VP-NOMA, higher CEU capacity than NOMA and JT-COMP VP-NOMA, and superior ESC, with the advantage growing as the number of cells increases because SM operates beyond Shannon bounds to mitigate ICI.

Significance. If the reported capacity comparisons are reproducible and the modeling assumptions hold, the work would provide a concrete scheme-level comparison of NOMA variants in CoMP settings with imperfect CSI/SIC. The explicit inclusion of imperfect SIC/CSI and multi-cell scaling is a positive feature, but the central interpretive claim about SM exceeding Shannon limits is a load-bearing flaw that prevents the performance results from being interpreted as claimed.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The statement that the proposed system 'can maintain CEU capacity better than the other schemes if the number of cells is increased. It happens because SM works beyond Shannon upper bounds which can mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI)' is factually incorrect. Shannon capacity (or mutual information of the effective channel including ICI) is an upper bound on any scheme; spatial modulation remains strictly inside this bound. This misstatement is offered as the explicit causal explanation for the central performance result (higher CEU capacity and superior ESC scaling), rendering the interpretation of both the analysis and simulations internally inconsistent.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract and § (results/discussion): The performance claims rest on simulations and analysis whose modeling details (exact channel model for ICI, antenna activation probabilities in SM, power allocation, and how 'beyond Shannon' is operationalized) are not shown to be free of the circularity that the explanatory text introduces. Without a corrected derivation or simulation protocol that removes the false premise, the reported CEU/ESC advantage cannot be attributed to the stated mechanism.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract contains the typo 'syatem' for 'system'.
  2. Notation for M (number of CoMP BSs) and N (number of cells) should be defined at first use and used consistently in any equations or figures.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thorough review and for highlighting the misstatement in the abstract. We agree that the claim regarding SM operating beyond Shannon bounds is factually incorrect and will be removed in revision. The observed performance advantages in simulations arise from the structural properties of SM within the JT-CoMP NOMA framework under imperfect SIC/CSI, not from any violation of information-theoretic limits. We address the comments point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The statement that the proposed system 'can maintain CEU capacity better than the other schemes if the number of cells is increased. It happens because SM works beyond Shannon upper bounds which can mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI)' is factually incorrect. Shannon capacity (or mutual information of the effective channel including ICI) is an upper bound on any scheme; spatial modulation remains strictly inside this bound. This misstatement is offered as the explicit causal explanation for the central performance result (higher CEU capacity and superior ESC scaling), rendering the interpretation of both the analysis and simulations internally inconsistent.

    Authors: We agree that this statement is erroneous and must be corrected. Spatial modulation cannot exceed the mutual information of the effective channel. The simulations show higher CEU capacity and ESC for JT-COMP NOMA-SM as the number of cells increases, but this occurs because the spatial-domain symbol in SM provides an additional degree of freedom that interacts differently with residual interference under imperfect SIC and CSI, rather than any bound violation. We will revise the abstract to remove the incorrect causal claim and replace it with a description grounded in the derived capacity expressions (Section III) and the simulation setup. This change does not alter the numerical results but corrects their interpretation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and § (results/discussion): The performance claims rest on simulations and analysis whose modeling details (exact channel model for ICI, antenna activation probabilities in SM, power allocation, and how 'beyond Shannon' is operationalized) are not shown to be free of the circularity that the explanatory text introduces. Without a corrected derivation or simulation protocol that removes the false premise, the reported CEU/ESC advantage cannot be attributed to the stated mechanism.

    Authors: The modeling details follow standard assumptions: ICI uses the multi-cell path-loss plus Rayleigh fading model with the effective channel including all inter-cell terms; SM activates exactly one antenna per symbol with uniform probability over the antenna set; power allocation follows the optimization in Section III-B. The 'beyond Shannon' phrasing was a misstatement and is not used in the derivations or simulation code. The capacity formulas are the standard ergodic rates with imperfect SIC/CSI terms subtracted. We will add an explicit paragraph in the revised results section clarifying that all results lie within the Shannon limit of the effective channel and that the advantage is due to SM's interference resilience in the multi-cell scaling regime. If additional simulation parameters are required, they can be included in an appendix. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; analysis and comparisons are self-contained without reductions to self-defined inputs or self-citations.

full rationale

The paper derives user capacity and ESC expressions under imperfect SIC/CSI, then compares JT-COMP NOMA-SM to NOMA and JT-COMP VP-NOMA via both closed-form analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. No equations reduce a 'prediction' to a fitted parameter by construction, no self-citation chain bears the central claim, and the SM performance explanation (while factually incorrect) is an interpretive statement rather than a definitional or fitted step. The derivation chain remains independent of the authors' prior outputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract relies on standard information-theoretic capacity expressions for NOMA and spatial modulation under imperfect SIC and CSI; no free parameters, new entities, or ad-hoc axioms are introduced in the provided text.

axioms (1)
  • standard math Standard ergodic capacity formulas for NOMA and SM under imperfect SIC and CSI hold for the JT-COMP setting
    The analysis of user capacity and ESC is stated to be performed with these expressions.

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    The proposed system can maintain CEU capacity better than the other schemes if the number of cells is increased. It happens because SM works beyond Shannon upper bounds which can mitigate inter-cell interference (ICI).

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