Asymptotic Performance Analysis of Successive Interference Cancellation With Dynamic User-Decoding Order

We address the evaluation of dynamic (estimation-based) user-decoding order in successive interference cancellation (SIC) in a proof-of-concept multiple access satellite setting in which many code-division multiple access users employ non-orthogonal spreading codes and the same encoder. We consider the practical setting where user symbol energies, unknown to the receiver, are estimated by preamble cross-correlations. Thereafter, SIC proceeds in non-increasing order of the former estimates. In contrast with small networks evaluated in the literature, we analyze the large-user regime and derive a simple system model to analyze the asymptotic network performance. Monte Carlo simulations validate our infinite-user analysis for hundreds of users and report the benefits of their application.