
Reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered communication (RIS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) are promising candidates for future generations of wireless networks. The former enhances the transmission environments, whereas the latter provides a high spectral efficiency transmission. This letter proposes, for the first time, an RIS-assisted uplink SCMA (SCMA-RIS) scheme to improve the conventional SCMA spectrum efficiency. The message passing algorithm (MPA) is utilized and modified to decode the SCMA-RIS transmitted signals. Moreover, a low-complexity decoder for the SCMA-RIS scheme is proposed to significantly reduce the MPA decoding complexity and improve the bit error rate performance of the conventional SCMA. Monte-Carlo simulations and complexity analysis are presented, which support the findings.
5 pages, 5 figures, to be appeared on IEEE Communications Letters
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Message passing algorithm (MPA), Complexity theory, Computer Science - Information Theory, Information Theory (cs.IT), Maximum likelihood decoding, NOMA, Computer Science - Emerging Technologies, Iterative decoding, Receivers, Emerging Technologies (cs.ET), Bit error rate, Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), Telecommunications, Sparse code multiple access (SCMA), Low-complexity decoder, Complexity theory; Uplink; Bit error rate; Maximum likelihood decoding; Iterative decoding; Receivers; NOMA; Sparse code multiple access (SCMA); Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS); Message passing algorithm (MPA); Low-complexity decoder, Uplink
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Message passing algorithm (MPA), Complexity theory, Computer Science - Information Theory, Information Theory (cs.IT), Maximum likelihood decoding, NOMA, Computer Science - Emerging Technologies, Iterative decoding, Receivers, Emerging Technologies (cs.ET), Bit error rate, Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), Telecommunications, Sparse code multiple access (SCMA), Low-complexity decoder, Complexity theory; Uplink; Bit error rate; Maximum likelihood decoding; Iterative decoding; Receivers; NOMA; Sparse code multiple access (SCMA); Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS); Message passing algorithm (MPA); Low-complexity decoder, Uplink
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