In order to further improve the spectral efficiency of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system
a joint design scheme of user clustering
successive interference cancellation (SIC) decoding order
transmit power allocation
analog beam selection and IRS phase shifting was investigated
under the transmit power constraint
SIC decoding rate constraint
beam selection constraint
SIC decoding order constraint
user rate constraint
and IRS phase shift constraint
aiming at maximizing system sum rate.Because of the coupling of discrete variables
combinatorial variables and continuous variables in objective function and constraints
the formulated optimization problem was difficult to solve by traditional optimization methods.To solve it
first the SIC decoding sequence variables were transformed into binary discrete variables through a query table
then the discrete variables and continuous variables were decoupled based on the hybrid whale optimization algorithm
and delt with the optimization constraints based on the penalty function method
and the non-convex optimization problem was transformed into a heuristic problem for iterative solution.Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
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