Cross-layer 1 and 5 user grouping/power allocation/subcarrier allocations for downlink OFDMA/NOMA video communications

Wang et al proposed cross-layer resource allocation for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) video transmission systems. Unlike Wang et al, we add non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to the downlink OFDMA video transmission system and propose power allocation for users on each subcarrier (cluster) to minimize sum of video mean square error (MSE) to increase the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), the video quality. For OFDMA/NOMA video communication systems, we propose cross-layer user clustering to reassign the subcarriers based on sum video distortion minimization and derive the optimal power allocation among NOMA users on the same subcarrier to minimize the sum video distortion. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous OFDMA cross-layer scheme by Wang et al by 2.2 to 4.5 dB in PSNR and previous OFDMA NOMA physical layer scheme by Ali et al by 2 to 4.4 dB in PSNR, when SNR = 15 dB, and the number of users is 6 to 12.