777 research outputs found
Full-Duplex Relaying in MIMO-OFDM Frequency-Selective Channels with Optimal Adaptive Filtering
In-band full-duplex transmission allows a relay station to theoretically
double its spectral efficiency by simultaneously receiving and transmitting in
the same frequency band, when compared to the traditional half-duplex or
out-of-band full-duplex counterpart. Consequently, the induced
self-interference suffered by the relay may reach considerable power levels,
which decreases the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) in a
decode-and-forward (DF) relay, leading to a degradation of the relay
performance. This paper presents a technique to cope with the problem of
self-interference in broadband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relays.
The proposed method uses a time-domain cancellation in a DF relay, where a
replica of the interfering signal is created with the help of a recursive least
squares (RLS) algorithm that estimates the interference frequency-selective
channel. Its convergence mean time is shown to be negligible by simulation
results, when compared to the length of a typical orthogonal-frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM) sequences. Moreover, the bit-error-rate (BER) and the SINR
in a OFDM transmission are evaluated, confirming that the proposed method
extends significantly the range of self-interference power to which the relay
is resilient to, when compared with other mitigation schemes
Hardware Impairments Aware Transceiver Design for Full-Duplex Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relaying
In this work we study the behavior of a full-duplex (FD) and
amplify-and-forward (AF) relay with multiple antennas, where hardware
impairments of the FD relay transceiver is taken into account. Due to the
inter-dependency of the transmit relay power on each antenna and the residual
self-interference in an FD-AF relay, we observe a distortion loop that degrades
the system performance when the relay dynamic range is not high. In this
regard, we analyze the relay function in presence of the hardware inaccuracies
and an optimization problem is formulated to maximize the signal to
distortion-plus-noise ratio (SDNR), under relay and source transmit power
constraints. Due to the problem complexity, we propose a
gradient-projection-based (GP) algorithm to obtain an optimal solution.
Moreover, a nonalternating sub-optimal solution is proposed by assuming a
rank-1 relay amplification matrix, and separating the design of the relay
process into multiple stages (MuStR1). The proposed MuStR1 method is then
enhanced by introducing an alternating update over the optimization variables,
denoted as AltMuStR1 algorithm. It is observed that compared to GP, (Alt)MuStR1
algorithms significantly reduce the required computational complexity at the
expense of a slight performance degradation. Finally, the proposed methods are
evaluated under various system conditions, and compared with the methods
available in the current literature. In particular, it is observed that as the
hardware impairments increase, or for a system with a high transmit power, the
impact of applying a distortion-aware design is significant.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Dispensing with channel estimation: differentially modulated cooperative wireless communications
As a benefit of bypassing the potentially excessive complexity and yet inaccurate channel estimation, differentially encoded modulation in conjunction with low-complexity noncoherent detection constitutes a viable candidate for user-cooperative systems, where estimating all the links by the relays is unrealistic. In order to stimulate further research on differentially modulated cooperative systems, a number of fundamental challenges encountered in their practical implementations are addressed, including the time-variant-channel-induced performance erosion, flexible cooperative protocol designs, resource allocation as well as its high-spectral-efficiency transceiver design. Our investigations demonstrate the quantitative benefits of cooperative wireless networks both from a pure capacity perspective as well as from a practical system design perspective
On Capacity of Active Relaying in Magnetic Induction based Wireless Underground Sensor Networks
Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) present a variety of new
research challenges. Magnetic induction (MI) based transmission has been
proposed to overcome the very harsh propagation conditions in underground
communications in recent years. In this approach, induction coils are utilized
as antennas in the sensor nodes. This solution achieves longer transmission
ranges compared to the traditional electromagnetic (EM) waves based approach.
Furthermore, a passive relaying technique has been proposed in the literature
where additional resonant circuits are deployed between the nodes. However,
this solution is shown to provide only a limited performance improvement under
practical system design contraints. In this work, the potential of an active
relay device is investigated which may improve the performance of the system by
combining the benefits of the traditional wireless relaying and the MI based
signal transmission.Comment: This paper has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICC 2015. It
has 6 pages, 5 figures (4 colored), and 17 reference
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