ECF-Based estimator for the LOS power in uplink NOMA system with unknown impulsive noise

Abstract

In this paper, an empirical characteristic function (ECF) based estimator of the line-of-sight (LOS) power for the near user in an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system with unknown impulsive noise is proposed. The channels between the users and the base station (BS) are assumed to have Rician fading. The performance of the proposed estimator is analytically evaluated, which demonstrates the asymptotic unbiasedness and consistency of the estimator. Furthermore, the approximate expression derived for the variance is confirmed through computer simulations. Numerical results show that the proposed estimator outperforms the previous estimator for the LOS power in the mixture of Gaussian and α-stable noise. © 1994-2012 IEEE.