Proposed different relay selection schemes for improving the performance of cooperative wireless networks

Relay selection is a new method currently used to develop and improve cooperative wireless networks. One of the main advantages of this new technology is that it can achieve cooperative diversity gain without installing multiple antennas in the transmitter or receiver. Relay selection algorithms can be used to select one node to become a relay node from a set of N candidate relays with optimization criteria as the outage probability or frame error rate. The selection process is preferable to operate in a distributed fashion and offers only reasonable costs in terms of manufacturing complexity and flexible handling over wireless cooperative networks. In this work, different relay selection schemes are proposed to enhance the cooperative wireless networks in terms of different approaches including: 1) Relay selection-based destination feedback scheme, 2) Relay selection based a ready-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) messages scheme, 3) Relay selection-based identification messages (IDM) table scheme, and 4) Relay selection-based relay power consuming scheme. The experimental results via suggested case study show that the performance of overall cooperative network is enhanced in terms of increasing throughput, energy saving (efficiency maximization), blocking reduction and outage reduction (PER minimization)

Analysis and Evaluation of Performance Gains and Tradeoffs for Massive MIMO Systems

Massive MIMO technique offers significant performance gains for the future of wireless communications via improving the spectral efficiency, energy efficiency and the channel quality with simple linear processing such as maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) or zero-forcing (ZF) by providing each user a large degree of freedom. In this paper, the system performance gains are studied in a multi-cell downlink massive MIMO system under the main considerations such as perfect channel estimation, imperfect channel estimation and the effect of interference among cells due to pilot sequences contamination. Then, mathematical expressions are derived for these gains i.e., spatial multiplexing gain, array gain and spatial diversity gain. After that, essential tradeoffs among these gains are considered under the effect of non-orthogonal interference, these tradeoffs are: spatial diversity gain vs. spatial multiplexing gain and array gain vs. spatial multiplexing gain. Simulation results show that the unbounded number of base station antennas boosts the array gain through concentrating the energy to spatial directions where users are sited, hence diminishing loss in array gain due to pilot contamination. The simulation results reveal also that massive MIMO strengthens the spatial multiplexing gain through increasing the number of served users via the same system resources in spite the effect of inter-cell interference. Finally, the spatial diversity gain is measured in term of outage probability and the simulation results show that raising the number of antennas will improve the outage probability. Meanwhile increasing the number of served users will lead to degrade the outage probability per user due to non-orthogonal interference from other cells

Developing a Video Buffer Framework for Video Streaming in Cellular Networks

This work proposes a new video buffer framework (VBF) to acquire a favorable quality of experience (QoE) for video streaming in cellular networks. The proposed framework consists of three main parts: client selection algorithm, categorization method, and distribution mechanism. The client selection algorithm was named independent client selection algorithm (ICSA), which is proposed to select the best clients who have less interfering effects on video quality and recognize the clients’ urgency based on buffer occupancy level. In the categorization method, each frame in the video buffer is given a specific number for better estimation of the playout outage probability, so it can efficiently handle so many frames from different videos at different bitrates. Meanwhile, at the proposed distribution mechanism, a predetermined threshold value is selected for lower and upper levels of playout outage probability. Then, the control unit at the base station will distribute the radio resources and decide the minimum rate requirement based on clients’ urgency categories. Simulation results showed that the VBF grantees fairness of resources distribution among different clients within the same cellular network while minimizing the interruption duration and controlling the video buffer at an acceptable level. Also, the results showed that the system throughput of the proposed framework outperforms other existing algorithms such as playout buffer and discontinuous reception aware scheduling (PBDAS), maximum carrier-to-interface ratio (MAX-CIR), and proportional fair (PF) due to enhancing the quality of experience for video streaming by increasing the radio resources in fairness manner