一种改进的中继节点选择方案

3GPP标准组织在2004年底启动了其长期演进(LTE)技术的标准化工作.上行传输方案采用带循环前缀的单载波频分多址接入(SC-FDMA)技术.对LTE上行链路进行仿真,实现无中继节点的直接传输.引入中继节点,通过传统最大路径损耗最小(LMP,least maximum pathloss)方案选取最优中继参与协作传输.重点分析并指出了传统LMP算法的缺点和不足,在此基础上提出了一种改进的中继节点选择算法,并结合考虑了源节点和中继节点的功率分配.从系统误码率和用户消耗功率两个方面对各传输方案进行了仿真分析.仿真结果表明LTE上行链路引入中继节点实现协作传输可明显提高系统的误码率性能.协作传输还节约了功率的使用,提高了用户的待机时间和功率效率.相比传统中继选择方案,改进后的LMP算法无论是从误码率还是功率消耗都得到明显改善.     

An efficient multi-relay selection scheme in cooperative communication system

Cooperative relaying has played an important role in rapid evolution of wireless communications.The cooperative performance strongly depends on the selected relays.In this paper,we concentrate on relay selection in amplify-and-forward （AF） cooperative communication system,and an optimal multi-relay selection scheme is put forward to minimize the average symbol error rate（SER） of the system.Firstly,for the minimum average SER,on the basis of the statistic channel information,we define a parameter named equivalent channel gain which describes the channel status of two phases in the cooperative process.Then,under the constraint of equal power allocation,an optimal relay selection scheme is proposed in ascending order of equivalent channel gain （ECG）.The scheme implies that the suitable number of relay nodes should be selected under the different signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） ranges to minimize the average SER.Computer simulation results show that the average SER rate of the proposed scheme is lower than these of the other schemes.