IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), ELECTR NETWORK, 14 - 23 Haziran 2021
Massive MIMO and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are key technologies for next generation wireless systems due to their distinct advantages. We previously proposed a general framework on unification of code-domain NOMA and joint spatial division and multiplexing (JSDM) which is a spatial user-grouping based hybrid beamforming method for massive MIMO. In this paper, we propose a constrained analog beamformer design for JSDM based systems. Moreover, we propose joint group processing for the digital beamformer in order to reduce the interference introduced by constrained beamformers. We provide a comprehensive performance evaluation for different operational modes of JSDM with code-domain NOMA when constrained analog beamformers are utilized.