Aug 2026· Telecom· Vol 7, pp. 102· 0 citations· 33 references
TL;DR
Numerical results show that the proposed uplink PD-NOMA-based soft handover scheme provides much better performance on throughput and fairness for heavy loads.
Abstract
Low Earth orbit mobile satellite system (LEO-MSS) is a major system that provides communication support for mobile terminals beyond the coverage of terrestrial communication systems. However, passive handover happens frequently, caused by the quick movement of LEO satellites, making it hard to guarantee quality of service (QoS) for handover users while maintaining a large number of users. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel soft handover scheme and combine it with uplink power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (PD-NOMA) for the first time to guarantee QoS for handover users and improve uplink throughput. We analyze the uplink PD-NOMA-based soft handover scheme with three users in two beams and give the closed-form expression of the optimal uplink transmission power allocation. Afterward, we introduce this method into a practical multi-beam LEO-MSS system with multiple users and sub-channels and formulate the optimization problems to maximize system throughput. Numerical results show that the proposed uplink PD-NOMA-based soft handover scheme provides much better performance on throughput and fairness for heavy loads.
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