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To serve multiple users simultaneously, many multiple-access schemes have been researched in OBF. However, for most of the multiple-access schemes, the SEs are not satisfactory. To further improve the SE, this paper proposes a downlink multiuser OBF system, where both orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) methods are applied. The closed-form expressions of the equivalent channels and SE are derived in frequency selective fading channels. Then, an optimization problem is formulated to maximize the SE, although the optimization problem is non-convex and hard to solve. To obtain the solution, we divide the optimization problem into two suboptimal issues, and then a joint iterative algorithm is applied. In the proposed optimization scheme, the subcarrier mapping \u03d1, user pairing knc and allocated power Pknc are determined to maximize spectrum efficiency (SE) and reduce bit error ratio (BER). According to numerical results, the proposed method achieves approximately 5 dB gain on both SE and BER, compared to the existing beamforming methods with low feedback information. Moreover, the SE of the proposed method is approximately 2 (bps\/Hz) higher than sparse code multiple-access (SCMA), when the number of waiting users and the ratio of transmit power to noise variance are respectively 10 and 20 dB. It is indicated that the proposed scheme can achieve high and low BER with the limited feedback and computation complexity, regardless of the transmit power and the number of waiting users.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23070809","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,25]],"date-time":"2021-06-25T11:07:40Z","timestamp":1624619260000},"page":"809","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Joint Resource Allocation for Multiuser Opportunistic Beamforming Systems with OFDM-NOMA"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Wen-Bin","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0329-7124","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ming-Liang","family":"Tao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7375-9806","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rui-Zhe","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zi-Xiong","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"565","DOI":"10.1109\/TWC.2020.3026471","article-title":"Learnable MIMO detection networks based on inexact ADMM","volume":"20","author":"Kim","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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