  This paper develops an interference aware design for cooperative hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
scheme for large-scale device-to-device (D2D) networks. Specifically,
interference aware rate selection and power allocation are considered to
maximize long term average throughput (LTAT) and area spectral efficiency
(ASE). The design framework is based on stochastic geometry that jointly
accounts for the spatial interference correlation at the NOMA receivers as well
as the temporal interference correlation across HARQ transmissions. It is found
that ignoring the effect of the aggregate interference, or overlooking the
spatial and temporal correlation in interference, highly overestimates the NOMA
performance and produces misleading design insights. An interference oblivious
selection for the power and/or transmission rates leads to violating the
network outage constraints. To this end, the results demonstrate the
effectiveness of NOMA transmission and manifest the importance of the
cooperative HARQ to combat the negative effect of the network aggregate
interference. For instance, comparing to the non-cooperative HARQ assisted
NOMA, the proposed scheme can yield an outage probability reduction by $32$%.
Furthermore, an interference aware optimal design that maximizes the LTAT given
outage constraints leads to $47$% throughput improvement over HARQ-assisted
orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme.
