556 research outputs found
On the Performance of the Relay-ARQ Networks
This paper investigates the performance of relay networks in the presence of
hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback and adaptive power allocation.
The throughput and the outage probability of different hybrid ARQ protocols are
studied for independent and spatially-correlated fading channels. The results
are obtained for the cases where there is a sum power constraint on the source
and the relay or when each of the source and the relay are power-limited
individually. With adaptive power allocation, the results demonstrate the
efficiency of relay-ARQ techniques in different conditions.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. 201
On the Required Number of Antennas in a Point-to-Point Large-but-Finite MIMO System: Outage-Limited Scenario
This paper investigates the performance of the point-to-point
multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of a large but
finite numbers of antennas at the transmitters and/or receivers. Considering
the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, we
determine the minimum numbers of the transmit/receive antennas which are
required to satisfy different outage probability constraints. Our results are
obtained for different fading conditions and the effect of the power amplifiers
efficiency on the performance of the MIMO-HARQ systems is analyzed. Moreover,
we derive closed-form expressions for the asymptotic performance of the
MIMO-HARQ systems when the number of antennas increases. Our analytical and
numerical results show that different outage requirements can be satisfied with
relatively few transmit/receive antennas.Comment: Under review in IEEE Transactions on Communication
Green communication via Type-I ARQ: Finite block-length analysis
This paper studies the effect of optimal power allocation on the performance
of communication systems utilizing automatic repeat request (ARQ). Considering
Type-I ARQ, the problem is cast as the minimization of the outage probability
subject to an average power constraint. The analysis is based on some recent
results on the achievable rates of finite-length codes and we investigate the
effect of codewords length on the performance of ARQ-based systems. We show
that the performance of ARQ protocols is (almost) insensitive to the length of
the codewords, for codewords of length channel uses. Also, optimal
power allocation improves the power efficiency of the ARQ-based systems
substantially. For instance, consider a Rayleigh fading channel, codewords of
rate 1 nats-per-channel-use and outage probability Then, with a
maximum of 2 and 3 transmissions, the implementation of power-adaptive ARQ
reduces the average power, compared to the open-loop communication setup, by 17
and 23 dB, respectively, a result which is (almost) independent of the
codewords length. Also, optimal power allocation increases the diversity gain
of the ARQ protocols considerably.Comment: Accepted for publication in GLOBECOM 201
Turbo Packet Combining for Broadband Space-Time BICM Hybrid-ARQ Systems with Co-Channel Interference
In this paper, efficient turbo packet combining for single carrier (SC)
broadband multiple-input--multiple-output (MIMO) hybrid--automatic repeat
request (ARQ) transmission with unknown co-channel interference (CCI) is
studied. We propose a new frequency domain soft minimum mean square error
(MMSE)-based signal level combining technique where received signals and
channel frequency responses (CFR)s corresponding to all retransmissions are
used to decode the data packet. We provide a recursive implementation algorithm
for the introduced scheme, and show that both its computational complexity and
memory requirements are quite insensitive to the ARQ delay, i.e., maximum
number of ARQ rounds. Furthermore, we analyze the asymptotic performance, and
show that under a sum-rank condition on the CCI MIMO ARQ channel, the proposed
packet combining scheme is not interference-limited. Simulation results are
provided to demonstrate the gains offered by the proposed technique.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, and 2 table
DMT Optimality of LR-Aided Linear Decoders for a General Class of Channels, Lattice Designs, and System Models
The work identifies the first general, explicit, and non-random MIMO
encoder-decoder structures that guarantee optimality with respect to the
diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT), without employing a computationally
expensive maximum-likelihood (ML) receiver. Specifically, the work establishes
the DMT optimality of a class of regularized lattice decoders, and more
importantly the DMT optimality of their lattice-reduction (LR)-aided linear
counterparts. The results hold for all channel statistics, for all channel
dimensions, and most interestingly, irrespective of the particular lattice-code
applied. As a special case, it is established that the LLL-based LR-aided
linear implementation of the MMSE-GDFE lattice decoder facilitates DMT optimal
decoding of any lattice code at a worst-case complexity that grows at most
linearly in the data rate. This represents a fundamental reduction in the
decoding complexity when compared to ML decoding whose complexity is generally
exponential in rate.
The results' generality lends them applicable to a plethora of pertinent
communication scenarios such as quasi-static MIMO, MIMO-OFDM, ISI,
cooperative-relaying, and MIMO-ARQ channels, in all of which the DMT optimality
of the LR-aided linear decoder is guaranteed. The adopted approach yields
insight, and motivates further study, into joint transceiver designs with an
improved SNR gap to ML decoding.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure (3 subfigures), submitted to the IEEE Transactions
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Green Communication via Power-optimized HARQ Protocols
Recently, efficient use of energy has become an essential research topic for
green communication. This paper studies the effect of optimal power controllers
on the performance of delay-sensitive communication setups utilizing hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ). The results are obtained for repetition time
diversity (RTD) and incremental redundancy (INR) HARQ protocols. In all cases,
the optimal power allocation, minimizing the outage-limited average
transmission power, is obtained under both continuous and bursting
communication models. Also, we investigate the system throughput in different
conditions. The results indicate that the power efficiency is increased
substantially, if adaptive power allocation is utilized. For instance, assume
Rayleigh-fading channel, a maximum of two (re)transmission rounds with rates
nats-per-channel-use and an outage probability constraint
. Then, compared to uniform power allocation, optimal power
allocation in RTD reduces the average power by 9 and 11 dB in the bursting and
continuous communication models, respectively. In INR, these values are
obtained to be 8 and 9 dB, respectively.Comment: Accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
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