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arxivcs.ITeess.SP2026-06-28

Proportional-Fair Joint User Grouping and Power Allocation for Uplink NOMA-ISAC

Yaxuan Luo

This letter addresses long-term fairness in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access integrated sensing and communication (NOMA-ISAC) systems. Existing resource allocation schemes that maximize instantaneous sum rate often favor strong users, leaving historically underserved users with poor long-term throughput. We propose PF-JUGPA, a proportional-fair scheduling based joint user grouping and power allocation method. PF-JUGPA first pre-selects users via a PF metric combining instantaneous rate proxies and historical averages, then performs fairness-aware grouping and power allocation by maximizing a weighted sum rate whose weights are inversely proportional to historical service rates. Simulation results show that PF-JUGPA significantly improves the Jain fairness index and weak-user average rates with only a modest sum-rate loss compared to sum-rate-oriented and round-robin baselines. The findings confirm that embedding long-term service history into both scheduling and resource allocation yields an effective throughput--fairness--sensing tradeoff in uplink NOMA-ISAC.

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