  The fifth generation (5G) communication scenarios such as the cellular
network and the emerging machine type communications will produce massive small
packets. To support massive connectivity and avoid signaling overhead caused by
the transmission of those small packets, this paper proposes a novel method to
improve the transmission efficiency for massive connections of wireless uplink
channel. The proposed method combines compressive sensing (CS) with power
domain NOMA jointly, especially neither the scheduling nor the centralized
power allocation is necessary in the method. Both the analysis and simulation
show that the method can support up to two or three times overloading.
