On the Performance Analysis of Full-Duplex Incremental Cooperative NOMA

A full-duplex incremental cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (FD-ICN) scheme is proposed for a two user downlink network. Based on a pilot signal from the far user, the base station decides between transmitting in direct transmission mode or using cooperation via the near user. We evaluate the proposed scheme in terms of the pair outage probability, in order to guarantee a feasible service for both users. The results show that the proposed scheme presents better performance in terms of outage probability, when compared with the half-duplex incremental cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access scheme as well as with the conventional cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access schemes.