RETRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES USING A NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS (NOMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A "smart" hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) based method. In a downlink embodiment of the smart HARQ based method, a network node, using a set of one or more radio resources, transmits a first superimposed signal containing a message for a first UE and a second message for a second UE. If the network node receives a NACK from the first UE indicating that it could not decode either the first message or the second message and also receives a NACK from the second UE indicating that it could not decode the second message, the network node initially only retransmits one of the messages.