217 research outputs found
Dispensing with Channel Estimation…
In this article, we investigate the feasibility of noncoherent detection schemes in wireless communication systems as a low-complexity alternative to the family of coherent schemes. The noncoherent schemes require no channel knowledge at the receiver for the detection of the received signal, while the coherent schemes require channel inherently complex estimation, which implies that pilot symbols have to be transmitted resulting in a wastage of the available bandwidth as well as the transmission power
Forwarding strategies and optimal power allocation for coherent and noncoherent relay networks
In fading wireless channels, relays are used with the aim of achieving diversity and thus overall performance gain. In cooperative relay networks, various forwarding techniques like amplify and forward (AF) and decode and forward (DF) are used at the relay for better throughput and improved BER performance than traditional multihop systems. In a power constrained environment, the performance can be further improved by using an optimal power allocation strategy. The relative position of the relay with respect to the source and destination also has an immense effect on the efficacy of the relay.;We position the relay at various positions in a planar grid, with the position of source and destination being fixed, and we investigate the effect that the positioning of the relay has on a relaying system. We use our three terminal model to optimize the power allocation under total transmit power constraint, to maximize the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at destination, and thus achieve improved throughput and BER performance, while using AF and DF protocols. We evaluate the performance of our system for both coherent and noncoherent modulation in a Rayleigh block fading channel. Quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) is used in the coherent case and 4-Frequency shift keying (4-FSK) is used in the noncoherent case.;Previous works involving power allocation schemes have mainly concentrated on optimizing information theoretic quantities like capacity and outage probability. We derive expressions for instantaneous SNR using our model and optimize the power allocation based on that, with the final aim of achieving improved uncoded BER. Analytical expressions of the instantaneous SNR at the destination are derived for both AF and DF. These expressions are numerically optimized to obtain an optimum power allocation strategy for each position of the relay in both the AF and DF schemes using coherent or noncoherent detection.;We compare the performance of the AF and DF protocols based on their positional BER and throughput at different received SNR and notice that our power optimized schemes outperform existing power control schemes at certain areas. Finally we also identify the shape and area of the regions where relaying would provide performance gains for both the protocols at different received SNRs
Cooperative strategies design based on the diversity and multiplexing tradeoff
This thesis focuses on designing wireless cooperative communication strategies that are
either optimal or near-optimal in terms of the tradeoff between diversity and multiplexing
gains. Starting from classical cooperative broadcast, multiple-access and relay channels
with unit degree of freedom, to more general cooperative interference channels with
higher degrees of freedom, properties of different network topologies are studied and
their unique characteristics together with several advanced interference management
techniques are exploited to design cooperative transmission strategies in order to enhance
data rate, reliability or both at the same time. Moreover, various algorithms are
proposed to solve practical implementation issues and performance is analyzed through
both theoretical verifications and simulations
Cooperative Transmission Techniques in Wireless Communication Networks
Cooperative communication networks have received significant interests from both
academia and industry in the past decade due to its ability to provide spatial diversity
without the need of implementing multiple transmit and/or receive antennas at the
end-user terminals. These new communication networks have inspired novel ideas
and approaches to find out what and how performance improvement can be provided
with cooperative communications. The objective of this thesis is to design and analyze
various cooperative transmission techniques under the two common relaying signal
processing methods, namely decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward
(AF).
For the DF method, the thesis focuses on providing performance improvement
by mitigating detection errors at the relay(s). In particular, the relaying action is
implemented adaptively to reduce the phenomenon of error propagation: whether or
not a relay’s decision to retransmit depends on its decision variable and a predefined
threshold. First, under the scenario that unequal error protection is employed to
transmit different information classes at the source, a relaying protocol in a singlerelay
network is proposed and its error performance is evaluated. It is shown that
by setting the optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) thresholds at the relay for different
information classes, the overall error performance can be significantly improved.
Second, for multiple-relay networks, a relay selection protocol, also based on SNR
thresholds, is proposed and the optimal thresholds are also provided. Third, an
adaptive relaying protocol and a low-complexity receiver are proposed when binary
frequency-shift-keying (FSK) modulation is employed and neither the receiver nor the
transmitter knows the fading coefficients. It is demonstrated that large performance
improvements are possible when the optimal thresholds are implemented at the relays
and destination. Finally, under the scenario that there is information feedback
from the destination to the relays, a novel protocol is developed to achieve the maximum
transmission throughput over a multiple-relay network while the bit-error rate
satisfies a given constraint.
With the AF method, the thesis examines a fixed-gain multiple-relay network
in which the channels are temporally-correlated Rayleigh flat fading. Developed is
a general framework for maximum-ratio-combining detection when M-FSK modulation
is used and no channel state information is available at the destination. In
particular, an upper-bound expression on the system’s error performance is derived
and used to verify that the system achieves the maximal diversity order. Simulation
results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing schemes for
the multiple-relay network under consideration
Successive-relaying-aided decode-and-forward coherent versus noncoherent cooperative multicarrier space–time shift keying
Abstract—Successive-relaying-aided (SR) cooperative multi-carrier (MC) space–time shift keying (STSK) is proposed for frequency-selective channels. We invoke SR to mitigate the typical 50% throughput loss of conventional half-duplex relaying schemes and MC code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) to circumvent the dispersive effects of wireless channels and to reduce the SR-induced interference. The distributed relay terminals form two virtual antenna arrays (VAAs), and the source node (SN) successively transmits frequency-domain (FD) spread signals to one of the VAAs, in addition to directly transmitting to the destination node (DN). The constituent relay nodes (RNs) of each VAA activate cyclic-redundancy-checking-based (CRC) selective decode-and-forward (DF) relaying. The DN can jointly detect the signals received via the SN-to-DN and VAA-to-DN links using a low-complexity single-stream-based joint maximum-likelihood (ML) detector. We also propose a differentially encoded cooperative MC-CDMA STSK scheme to facilitate communications over hostile dispersive channels without requiring channel estimation (CE). Dispensing with CE is important since the relays cannot be expected to altruistically estimate the SN-to-RN links for simply supporting the source. Furthermore, we propose soft-decision-aided serially concatenated recursive systematic convolutional (RSC) and unity-rate-coded (URC) cooperative MC STSK and investigate its performance in both coherent and noncoherent scenarios
Successive-relaying-aided decode-and-forward coherent versus noncoherent cooperative multicarrier space–time shift keying
Abstract—Successive-relaying-aided (SR) cooperative multi-carrier (MC) space–time shift keying (STSK) is proposed for frequency-selective channels. We invoke SR to mitigate the typical 50% throughput loss of conventional half-duplex relaying schemes and MC code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) to circumvent the dispersive effects of wireless channels and to reduce the SR-induced interference. The distributed relay terminals form two virtual antenna arrays (VAAs), and the source node (SN) successively transmits frequency-domain (FD) spread signals to one of the VAAs, in addition to directly transmitting to the destination node (DN). The constituent relay nodes (RNs) of each VAA activate cyclic-redundancy-checking-based (CRC) selective decode-and-forward (DF) relaying. The DN can jointly detect the signals received via the SN-to-DN and VAA-to-DN links using a low-complexity single-stream-based joint maximum-likelihood (ML) detector. We also propose a differentially encoded cooperative MC-CDMA STSK scheme to facilitate communications over hostile dispersive channels without requiring channel estimation (CE). Dispensing with CE is important since the relays cannot be expected to altruistically estimate the SN-to-RN links for simply supporting the source. Furthermore, we propose soft-decision-aided serially concatenated recursive systematic convolutional (RSC) and unity-rate-coded (URC) cooperative MC STSK and investigate its performance in both coherent and noncoherent scenarios
Performance Analysis of Multihop Wireless Links over Generalized-K Fading Channels
The performance of multihop links is studied in this contribution by both analysis and simulations, when communicating over Generalized- () fading channels. The performance metrics considered include symbol error rate (SER), outage probability, level crossing rate (LCR) and average outage duration (AOD). First, the expressions for both the SER and outage probability are derived by approximating the probability density function (PDF) of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using an equivalent end-to-end PDF. We show that this equivalent end-to-end PDF is accurate for analyzing the outage probability. Then, the second-order statistics of LCR and AOD of multihop links are analyzed. Finally, the performance of multihop links is investigated either by simulations or by evaluation of the expressions derived. Our performance results show that the analytical expressions obtained can be well justified by the simulation results. The studies show that the channel model as well as the expressions derived in this paper are highly efficient for predicting the performance metrics and statistics for design of multihop communication links
OFDM based Distributed Space Time Coding for Asynchronous Relay Networks
Recently Li and Xia have proposed a transmission scheme for wireless relay
networks based on the Alamouti space time code and orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing to combat the effect of timing errors at the relay nodes.
This transmission scheme is amazingly simple and achieves a diversity order of
two for any number of relays. Motivated by its simplicity, this scheme is
extended to a more general transmission scheme that can achieve full
cooperative diversity for any number of relays. The conditions on the
distributed space time block code (DSTBC) structure that admit its application
in the proposed transmission scheme are identified and it is pointed out that
the recently proposed full diversity four group decodable DSTBCs from precoded
co-ordinate interleaved orthogonal designs and extended Clifford algebras
satisfy these conditions. It is then shown how differential encoding at the
source can be combined with the proposed transmission scheme to arrive at a new
transmission scheme that can achieve full cooperative diversity in asynchronous
wireless relay networks with no channel information and also no timing error
knowledge at the destination node. Finally, four group decodable distributed
differential space time block codes applicable in this new transmission scheme
for power of two number of relays are also provided.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in IEEE International Conference on
Communications, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 200
Signal Set Design for Full-Diversity Low-Decoding-Complexity Differential Scaled-Unitary STBCs
The problem of designing high rate, full diversity noncoherent space-time
block codes (STBCs) with low encoding and decoding complexity is addressed.
First, the notion of -group encodable and -group decodable linear STBCs
is introduced. Then for a known class of rate-1 linear designs, an explicit
construction of fully-diverse signal sets that lead to four-group encodable and
four-group decodable differential scaled unitary STBCs for any power of two
number of antennas is provided. Previous works on differential STBCs either
sacrifice decoding complexity for higher rate or sacrifice rate for lower
decoding complexity.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE ISIT 2007, Nice,
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