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Multihop Diversity in Wideband OFDM Systems: The Impact of Spatial Reuse and Frequency Selectivity
The goal of this paper is to establish which practical routing schemes for
wireless networks are most suitable for wideband systems in the power-limited
regime, which is, for example, a practically relevant mode of operation for the
analysis of ultrawideband (UWB) mesh networks. For this purpose, we study the
tradeoff between energy efficiency and spectral efficiency (known as the
power-bandwidth tradeoff) in a wideband linear multihop network in which
transmissions employ orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
modulation and are affected by quasi-static, frequency-selective fading.
Considering open-loop (fixed-rate) and closed-loop (rate-adaptive) multihop
relaying techniques, we characterize the impact of routing with spatial reuse
on the statistical properties of the end-to-end conditional mutual information
(conditioned on the specific values of the channel fading parameters and
therefore treated as a random variable) and on the energy and spectral
efficiency measures of the wideband regime. Our analysis particularly deals
with the convergence of these end-to-end performance measures in the case of
large number of hops, i.e., the phenomenon first observed in \cite{Oyman06b}
and named as ``multihop diversity''. Our results demonstrate the realizability
of the multihop diversity advantages in the case of routing with spatial reuse
for wideband OFDM systems under wireless channel effects such as path-loss and
quasi-static frequency-selective multipath fading.Comment: 6 pages, to be published in Proc. 2008 IEEE International Symposium
on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (IEEE ISSSTA'08), Bologna,
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Performance analysis of cooperative relay networks in presence of interference
In the past decade, cooperative communication has emerged as an attractive
technique for overcoming the shortcomings of point-to-point wireless communications
systems. Cooperative relaying improves the performance of wireless networks
by forming an array of multiple independent virtual sources transmitting
the same information as the source node. In addition, when relays are deployed
near the edge of the network, they can provide additional coverage in network
dead spots. Interference in the network can also be reduced in cooperative communications
systems as the nodes can transmit at lower power levels compared
to equivalent point-to-point communications systems.
Optimum design of a cooperative network requires an accurate understanding
of all factors affecting performance. In order to parameterize the performance
of cooperative systems, this thesis introduces mathematical models for different
performance metrics, such as symbol error probability, outage probability and
random coding error exponent, in order to analytically estimate network capacity.
A dual-hop network is introduced as the most basic type of relay network.
Random coding error exponent results have been obtained using this simple network
model are presented along with corresponding channel capacity estimates
based on the assumption of Gaussian input codes. Next, a general multihop
network error and outage performance model are developed.
Detailed mathematical and statistical models for interference relay networks
are presented. The basic statistical parameters, cumulative distribution function
and probability density function for interference cooperative dual hop relay networks
are derived and explored. A partial formulation for the random coding
error exponent (RCEE) result is also presented.
Simulation results over Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading channel models are
included in each chapter for all of the selected performance metrics in order to
validate the theoretical analysis, under the assumption that channels are flat over
the duration of one symbol transmission. These results are in close agreement
with the predictions of the analytical models.University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Decentralized Dynamic Hop Selection and Power Control in Cognitive Multi-hop Relay Systems
In this paper, we consider a cognitive multi-hop relay secondary user (SU)
system sharing the spectrum with some primary users (PU). The transmit power as
well as the hop selection of the cognitive relays can be dynamically adapted
according to the local (and causal) knowledge of the instantaneous channel
state information (CSI) in the multi-hop SU system. We shall determine a low
complexity, decentralized algorithm to maximize the average end-to-end
throughput of the SU system with dynamic spatial reuse. The problem is
challenging due to the decentralized requirement as well as the causality
constraint on the knowledge of CSI. Furthermore, the problem belongs to the
class of stochastic Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems which is quite
challenging. We exploit the time-scale difference between the PU activity and
the CSI fluctuations and decompose the problem into a master problem and
subproblems. We derive an asymptotically optimal low complexity solution using
divide-and-conquer and illustrate that significant performance gain can be
obtained through dynamic hop selection and power control. The worst case
complexity and memory requirement of the proposed algorithm is O(M^2) and
O(M^3) respectively, where is the number of SUs
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