articleIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsFeb 6, 2023Closed access

A Primer on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Tutorial, Myths, and Frequently Asked Questions

Silicon Austria Labs (Austria) · Imperial College London · +6 more institutions

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Abstract

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has emerged as a powerful multiple access, interference management, and multi-user strategy for next generation communication systems. In this tutorial, we depart from the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) versus non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) discussion held in 5G, and the conventional multi-user linear precoding approach used in space-division multiple access (SDMA), multi-user and massive MIMO in 4G and 5G, and show how multi-user communications and multiple access design for 6G and beyond should be intimately related to the fundamental problem of interference management. We start from foundational principles of interference management and rate-splitting, and…

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  • Computer science
  • Computer network
  • Telecommunications link
  • MIMO
  • Precoding
  • Multicast
  • Space-division multiple access
  • Channel state information
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