Abstract
Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) is a concept capable of massive
connectivity on the same physical channel without the need of precoding
or interference cancellation, by exploiting a super-high dimensional
received signal in the spatial domain from fluid antenna system (FAS).
This letter investigates the use of 5G New Radio (NR) Modulation Coding
Scheme (MCS) for FAMA systems to improve its connectivity over block
fading channels. In particular, we propose an iterative decoding
receiver with iterative interference covariance estimation for the coded
FAMA system. Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart is used to
analyze the performance of the proposed iterative receiver. Both EXIT
chart analysis and numerical results show that the proposed receiver
outperforms the one that uses fixed covariance in the block fading
channel. Also, the results indicate that coded FAMA can serve 100 user
terminals (UTs) at the rate of 0.5 bit/s/Hz under rich scattering.