Electronic device and communication method for non-orthogonal-resource based multiple access

1. An electronic device on a transmitting side in a communication system, comprising:

a memory configured to store a computer program; and

processing circuitry that in response to executing the computer program stored in the memory is configured to operate the electronic device

determine information on a codebook to perform non-orthogonal-resource based multiple access over a set of transmission resources, and

interleave occupied elements of at least two codewords of one user equipment among a plurality of user equipments on the set of transmission resources according to the information on the codebook.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to interleave the occupied elements in individual dimensions between the at least two codewords.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to interleave the occupied elements in a same dimension of the at least two codewords.

4. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform random interleaving or non-overlapping interleaving.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured such that the information on the codebook includes information on resource allocation and information on constellation, and wherein the information on constellation includes information on mother constellation and information on operation, and wherein the information on operation includes at least one of information on phase rotation, information on dimension permutation, and information on constellation conjugation of the mother constellation.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to interleave the occupied elements on individual dimensions of at least two constellation-modulated symbols of each user equipment and expand the interleaved symbols into respective codewords.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein information on operation includes at least one of information on phase rotation, information on dimension permutation, and information on constellation conjugation of the mother constellation.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to cache the at least two codewords prior to interleaving, or

determine the number of different codewords to be interleaved based on the correlation and a time delay.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to implement an interleaver based on information on interleaver configuration that includes an identification number of the interleaver, and wherein the information on interleaver configuration further includes an interleaving criterion and a category of the interleaver.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the non-orthogonal-resource is implemented as a sparse code multiple access (SCMA), and the information on the codebook includes information associated with a mapping matrix for SCMA indicates resources in the set of transmission resources occupied by the plurality of user equipments, or

the non-orthogonal-resource based multiple is implemented as a pattern division multiple access (PDMA), and the information on codebook includes information associated with a pattern matrix for PDMA to indicate resources of the set of transmission resources occupied by the plurality of user equipments.

11. An electronic device on a receiving side in a communication system, comprising:

a memory configured to store a computer program; and

processing circuitry that in response to executing the computer program stored in the memory is configured to operate the electronic device

determine information on a codebook and information on interleaving configuration for non-orthogonal-resource based multiple access for a plurality of user equipments, and

detect received signals according to the information on the codebook and the information on interleaving configuration to obtain data of respective user equipment.

12. The electronic device according to claim 11 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to jointly detect signals received on a plurality of time domain units based on the information on codebook and the information on interleaving configuration.

13. The electronic device according to claim 11 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to generate an expanded codebook based on the information on codebook and the information on interleaving configuration, and to jointly detect signals received on a plurality of time domain units by utilizing the expanded codebook.

14. A communication method, wherein it comprises:

determining information on a codebook to perform non-orthogonal-resource based multiple access over a set of transmission resources, and

interleaving occupied elements of at least two codewords of one user equipment among a plurality of user equipments on the set of transmission resources according to the information on the codebook.

15. The communication method according to claim 14 , wherein, further comprising:

interleaving the occupied elements in individual dimensions between the at least two codewords.

16. The communication method according to claim 14 , wherein, further comprising:

interleaving the occupied elements in a same dimension of the at least two codewords.

17. The communication method according to claim 15 , wherein, further comprising:

performing random interleaving or non-overlapping interleaving.

18. The communication method according to claim 14 , wherein the information on the codebook includes information on resource allocation and information on constellation, and wherein the information on constellation includes information on mother constellation and information on operation, and wherein the information on operation includes at least one of information on phase rotation, information on dimension permutation, and information on constellation conjugation of the mother constellation.

19. The communication method according to claim 14 , wherein, further comprising:

interleaving the occupied elements on individual dimensions of at least two constellation-modulated symbols of each user equipment and

expanding the interleaved symbols into respective codewords.

20. The communication method according to claim 19 , wherein the information on operation includes at least one of information on phase rotation, information on dimension permutation, and information on constellation conjugation of the mother constellation.