Energy-Efficient Transmission Strategy for Delay Tolerable Services in NOMA-Based Downlink With Two Users

With the continuous development of the communication industry, there is a shift in real-time services from 4G networks to Delay Tolerable (DT) services in the context of 5G/B5G networks. Additionally, energy consumption control poses significant challenges in the current communication industry. Therefore, we study algorithms and schemes to improve the Energy Efficiency (EE) of DT services in the context of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) downlink two-user communication system.First, we transformed the EE enhancement problem into a convex optimization problem based on transmission power by derivation. Secondly, we propose to use Approximate Statistical Dynamic Programming (ASDP) algorithm, Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) to solve the problem that convex optimization cannot be decided in real time. Finally, we perform an interpretability analysis on whether the decision schemes of the agents trained by the DDPG algorithm and the PPO algorithm are reasonable. The simulation results show that the decisions made by the agent trained by the DDPG algorithm perform better compared to the ASDP algorithm and the PPO algorithm.