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Beamforming in Two-Way Fixed Gain Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems with CCI
We analyze the outage performance of a two-way fixed gain amplify-and-forward
(AF) relay system with beamforming, arbitrary antenna correlation, and
co-channel interference (CCI). Assuming CCI at the relay, we derive the exact
individual user outage probability in closed-form. Additionally, while
neglecting CCI, we also investigate the system outage probability of the
considered network, which is declared if any of the two users is in
transmission outage. Our results indicate that in this system, the position of
the relay plays an important role in determining the user as well as the system
outage probability via such parameters as signal-to-noise imbalance, antenna
configuration, spatial correlation, and CCI power. To render further insights
into the effect of antenna correlation and CCI on the diversity and array
gains, an asymptotic expression which tightly converges to exact results is
also derived.Comment: Accepted for presentation on IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Canada, June 201
On Outage Probability and Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in MIMO Relay Channels
Fading MIMO relay channels are studied analytically, when the source and
destination are equipped with multiple antennas and the relays have a single
one. Compact closed-form expressions are obtained for the outage probability
under i.i.d. and correlated Rayleigh-fading links. Low-outage approximations
are derived, which reveal a number of insights, including the impact of
correlation, of the number of antennas, of relay noise and of relaying
protocol. The effect of correlation is shown to be negligible, unless the
channel becomes almost fully correlated. The SNR loss of relay fading channels
compared to the AWGN channel is quantified. The SNR-asymptotic
diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) is obtained for a broad class of fading
distributions, including, as special cases, Rayleigh, Rice, Nakagami, Weibull,
which may be non-identical, spatially correlated and/or non-zero mean. The DMT
is shown to depend not on a particular fading distribution, but rather on its
polynomial behavior near zero, and is the same for the simple
"amplify-and-forward" protocol and more complicated "decode-and-forward" one
with capacity achieving codes, i.e. the full processing capability at the relay
does not help to improve the DMT. There is however a significant difference
between the SNR-asymptotic DMT and the finite-SNR outage performance: while the
former is not improved by using an extra antenna on either side, the latter can
be significantly improved and, in particular, an extra antenna can be
traded-off for a full processing capability at the relay. The results are
extended to the multi-relay channels with selection relaying and typical outage
events are identified.Comment: accepted by IEEE Trans. on Comm., 201
A virtual MIMO dual-hop architecture based on hybrid spatial modulation
International audienceIn this paper, we propose a novel Virtual Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (VMIMO) architecture based on the concept of Spatial Modulation (SM). Using a dual-hop and Decode-and-Forward protocol, we form a distributed system, called Dual-Hop Hybrid SM (DH-HSM). DH-HSM conveys information from a Source Node (SN) to a Destination Node (DN) via multiple Relay Nodes (RNs). The spatial position of the RNs is exploited for transferring information in addition to, or even without, a conventional symbol. In order to increase the performance of our architecture, while keeping the complexity of the RNs and DN low, we employ linear precoding using Channel State Information (CSI) at the SN. In this way, we form a Receive-Spatial Modulation (R-SM) pattern from the SN to the RNs, which is able to employ a centralized coordinated or a distributed uncoordinated detection algorithm at the RNs. In addition, we focus on the SN and propose two regularized linear precoding methods that employ realistic Imperfect Channel State Information at the Transmitter. The power of each precoder is analyzed theoretically. Using the Bit Error Rate (BER) metric, we evaluate our architecture against the following benchmark systems: 1) single relay; 2) best relay selection; 3) distributed Space Time Block Coding (STBC) VMIMO scheme; and 4) the direct communication link. We show that DH-HSM is able to achieve significant Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) gains, which can be as high as 10.5 dB for a very large scale system setup. In order to verify our simulation results, we provide an analytical framework for the evaluation of the Average Bit Error Probability (ABEP)
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