Performance of a CDRT based Underlay NOMA With Combining at the Near User

In this paper, a coordinated direct and relay transmission (CDRT) based cognitive underlay downlink nonorthogonal multiple access network is considered, in which the source serves the near user (NU) directly while a dedicated relay assists the communication to the far user (FU). To ensure good performance in a power-constrained underlay scenario, NU combines (along with successive interference cancellation) the signals from the source and the relay in this unique CDRT framework. The secondary transmitter transmits with controlled power to ensure that the interference is below the interference temperature limit of the primary user. NU and FU performance is analyzed in terms of their outage probability and throughput in closed-form. Furthermore, we investigate how the choice of target rates and power allocation parameters is crucial to attaining the best performance. Extensive computer simulations are provided to validate the accuracy of the derived results.