Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a multiple access technique that allows multiple users to share the same communication resources, resulting in increased spectral efficiency and throughput. NOMA has been shown to provide significant performance gains over orthogonal multiple access (OMA) in terms of spectral efficiency and throughput. In this paper, two scenarios of NOMA are analyzed and simulated, involving two users and multiple users (four users) in order to evaluate the performance of NOMA in terms of bits per error ratio (BER) and achievable sum-rate (R-sum), then comparing NOMA with OMA in terms of achievable sum rate. The obtained results indicate that an improvement is achieved for two users NOMA (16.7 (bps/Hz)) compared with OMA (15.53(bps/Hz)), while for multi-users NOMA (20.69 (bps/Hz)) compared with OMA (15.79 (bps/Hz)) at transmitted power equal to 25 dBm.

Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a multiple-access technique allowing multiusers to share the same communication resources, increasing spectral efficiency and throughput. NOMA has been shown to provide significant performance gains over orthogonal multiple access (OMA) regarding spectral efficiency and throughput. In this paper, two scenarios of NOMA are analyzed and simulated, involving two users and multiple users (four users) to evaluate NOMA's performance. The simulated results indicate that the achievable sum rate for the two users’ scenarios is 16.7 (bps/Hz), while for the multi-users scenario is 20.69 (bps/Hz) at transmitted power of 25 dBm. The BER for two users’ scenarios is 0.004202 and 0.001564 for user 1 and user 2, respectively, while the BER for multi-users scenario are 0.001738, 0.000706, 0.000286, and 0.000028 for user 1, user 2, user 3, and user 4 respectively. In addition, this paper has compared NOMA with OMA in terms of achievable sum rate. The obtained results indicate that an improvement is achieved for two users NOMA (16.7 (bps/Hz)) compared with OMA (15.53(bps/Hz)), while for multi-users NOMA (20.69 (bps/Hz)) compared with OMA (15.79 (bps/Hz)) at transmitted power of 25 dBm.