On the Performance of NOMA in the Two-User SWIPT System

In this paper, we investigate nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system consisting of a battery powered access point and two energy harvesting users. In SWIPT, there exists an information-energy tradeoff. Since the adoption of NOMA may cause more energy consumption than the orthogonal multiple access (OMA), it is not known whether NOMA can always enhance the spectral efficiency...