A Novel HARQ-CC Assisted SCMA Scheme
Abstract: This letter proposes a novel hybrid automatic repeat request with chase combining assisted sparse code multiple access (HARQ-CC-SCMA) scheme. Depending on whether the same superimposed packet are retransmitted, synchronous and asynchronous modes are considered for retransmissions. Moreover, factor graph aggregation (FGA) and Log-likelihood ratio combination (LLRC) are proposed for multi-user detection. Regarding FGA, a large-scale factor graph is constructed by combining all the received superimposed signals and message passing algorithm (MAP) is applied to calculate log-likelihood ratio (LLR). Whereas, owing to the same unsuccessful messages required to be retransmitted, LLRC adds up LLRs of erroneously received packets in previous HARQ rounds together with currently received packets for channel decoding and saves the LLRs for failed users. Finally, Monte Carlo simulations are preformed to show that FGA surpasses LLRC and HARQ with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR) in synchronous mode. However, LLRC performs better than FGA at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in asynchronous mode. This is because failed messages after the maximum allowable HARQ rounds in this mode can yield significant error propagation in low SNR regime.
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