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Abstract Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has been previously studied to fulfil the demands of high spectral efficiency, massive connectivity and resilience to frequency selectivity for the upcoming fifth generation (5G) wireless communication and beyond. NOMA enables spectrum overlapping and allows distinct users to simultaneously operate over the same frequency band, and thus enables massive connectivity. High Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) and sensitivity to Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) are significant demerits to deploy such a multicarrier system for 5G and beyond applications. This paper studies the problem of high PAPR and the presence of CFO with efficient pre-coding techniques and a very simplified receiver design. An improved Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) receiver is proposed for low-complexity Joint Equalization and CFO Compensation (JECC) in frequency domain using Banded-Matrix Implementation (BMI). Moreover, we have investigated the sensitivity of different pre-coding techniques to channel and CFO estimation errors.