协作通信系统中基于频谱效率优化的跨层设计

为改善协作分集系统的频谱效率,提出一种改进的跨层设计方案,对协作通信系统物理层的自适应调制编码（AMC）技术和链路层的混合自动重传(HARQ)协议进行联合优化设计。该方案利用少量比特的反馈,使得仅当目的节点通过直接信道不能正确译码分组时或者当直接信道处于深度衰落时触发中继节点转发协作伙伴数据。给出了所提方案基于瑞利衰落信道、解码转发（DF）条件下频谱效率的表达式,然后搜索在任意信噪比条件下使频谱效率最大化的调制与编码方案。通过计算机仿真对理论分析进行了验证。理论分析和仿真表明该跨层设计在中低信噪比(SNR)可进一步提升协作通信系统的频谱效率。      

多用户空间分集合并系统的鲁棒性研究

分析了MIMO-MRC和最优合并系统在非理想信状态信息条件下多用户分集性能的鲁棒性。考虑存在多个共信道干扰,采用多用户平均容量差（RMUD）分析了瑞利平衰落信道中两种分集合并系统的多用户分集性能对信道估计误差的鲁棒性。研究结果表明,当不存在共信道干扰时OC系统的鲁棒性优于MIMO-MRC系统,而当存在CCI时则MIMO-MRC系统优于OC系统。     

编码协作分集研究与展望

用户协作方案是协作分集研究的一个重要方面。在慢衰落和快衰落信道条件下,均能带来传输性能改善的编码协作分集方案,是目前协作分集方案中备受关注的一种。尤其在将空时编码的思想引入该方案后,更带来了编码协作分集在快衰落信道条件下的良好性能。用户要想从协作中受益,协作伙伴/中继节点的选取是编码协作分集中一个重点。     

分布式RS码的协作及基于权重分配的联合译码研究

通信系统面临的主要挑战之一是减轻无线信道衰落的影响,衰落会引起接收信号功率的波动,降低系统性能。减少衰落影响的一种常用方法是使用分集技术,这些技术通过多个独立的信道传输预期信号,减轻了衰落的影响。为了研究RS码在分集技术下的性能表现,设计了分布式RS码的中继协作系统,并采用基于权重分配的译码算法。目的节点接收到来自源节点和中继节点的两路幅值信号后,将两路信号的实部与虚部乘以权重,并将实部与虚部独立进行相加之后的结果进行QAM硬判决,之后使用Berlekamp迭代译码算法进行译码。设计比较RS(63,51)码与RS(255,239)码在加性高斯白噪声信道(Additive White Gaussian Noise,AWGN)和快衰落信道(Fast fading channel)下性能表现。对于RS(63,51)码的权重协作方案,在快衰落信道下,误码率为10~(-6)时,相比于非协作方案,大约有5 dBs的性能增益,带来显著的分集增益。     

过时信道状态信息下的机会式中继选择系统的安全性能分析

在 Nakagami m衰落信道下,目的端和窃听者采用最大比合并策略,本文研究了在机会式自适应解码转发中继选择安全协作系统中的安全性能。由于实际信道中的反馈延迟,最优的合法中继选择基于合法信道反馈的过时信道状态信息。为了评价机会式中继选择在改善安全性能上的表现,分别推导了准确的正安全容量概率和准确的安全中断概率闭合表达式。此外,针对两种不同情况, 推导了形式简单的渐近表达式,并明确给出安全分集阶数和安全阵列增益。理论分析和数值仿真表明,增加中继个数和目的节点的天线数能够改善安全中断概率的性能表现,且在信道状态信息过时的条件下,系统的安全分集阶数与中继数无关。      

基于DF协议的功率分配和伙伴选择策略研究

在无线通信系统中,利用协作通信技术可以获得一定的分集增益,从而有效的提高系统性能。以容量最大化为优化目标,基于DF（解码转发）模式,研究了三节点协作通信中的功率分配与伙伴选择的问题,研究结果表明,当三节点间的信道衰落功率增益满足一定的条件时可以有效的提高系统的容量。     

基于DF协议的功率分配和伙伴选择策略研究

在无线通信系统中,利用协作通信技术可以获得一定的分集增益,从而有效的提高系统性能.本文以容量最大化为优化目标,基于DF(解码转发)模式,研究了三节点协作通信中的功率分配与伙伴选择的问题,研究结果表明,当三节点间的信道衰落功率增益满足一定的条件时可以有效的提高系统的容量.     

非对称双向中继系统中的协作多址广播传输方案设计与数据率性能分析

在双向中继系统中,2个节点通过一个半双工中继交换信息,2个方向的数据率都会受到较差链路的制约。当节点位置变化或信道衰落造成,中继两端的信道质量不对称时,这将导致系统的和数据率下降。为了弥补较差链路带来的数据率损失,提出了一种新的三时隙协作多址广播传输方案,使得信道质量较好的源节点与中继节点进行协作传输,并且各节点充分利用各链路所支持的最大数据率进行传输,从而有效提高系统容量及加权和数据率。推导出新方案的容量上界以及解码转发模式下的可达数据率域,并对时隙及功率等资源进行优化分配。仿真结果表明,在加性白高斯和瑞利衰落信道下,新方案在非对称信道下的性能都大大优于已有方案。     

多径信道下基于OFDM的DSTBC异步协同系统传输结构设计

协同的基本思想是通过无线网络中多个节点的互相协作来获得协同分集,从而提高系统的可靠性。将分布式空时块码(DSTBC)应用到协同中继系统中,可有效提高系统效率并获得协同分集。但是各中继节点的异步传输会破坏DSTBC码字的结构,严重影响系统性能。现有文献应用OFDM技术,可以保证基于DSTBC的协同系统在中继节点异步传输时仍获得全空间分集。但是,现有传输结构是在节点间为平衰落信道的前提下设计的,且不能直接扩展到多径衰落的情况。另外,其对应的码字需要满足一定的约束条件,限制了DSTBC在该结构下的应用。本文提出了一种新的基于OFDM的DSTBC传输结构,在节点间为多径信道和存在定时误差时,可以获得全空间分集。而且,所有可应用于同步协同系统下的码字都可以应用于此传输结构中,不需要满足额外的条件。理论分析和仿真结果表明,本文的传输结构在节点间为多径信道时可获得与现有基于OFDM的DSTBC异步协同系统在平衰落信道下一致的性能。然后,针对两中继的系统,在此传输结构的基础上,在源节点进行子载波分组和线性预编码处理,可以在获得全空间分集的同时获得全多径分集。      

认知车载网的频谱感知性能分析

认知车载网中不同的衰落传播信道会影响频谱感知的性能.为了描述不同信道下的频谱感知性能,分析了加性高斯白噪声信道、瑞利衰落信道和Nakagami-m衰落信道条件下的频谱感知单用户能量检测概率和协作能量检测概率,重点是Nakagami-m衰落信道、检测衰落因子、次用户的数量和信噪比这几个参数对协作频谱感知性能的影响.仿真结果表明,通过对不同信道特性的准确了解能够帮助车辆在不同衰落信道环境下提高频谱的检测概率.     

On the performance of multi‐hop wireless relay networks

User cooperation has evolved as a popular coding technique in wireless relay networks (WRNs). Using the neighboring nodes as relays to establish a communication between a source and a destination achieves an increase of the diversity order. The relay nodes can be seen as a distributed multi‐antenna system, which can be exploited for transmit diversity by using distributed space–time block coding (STBC). In this paper, we investigate the bit error rate (BER) of multi‐hop WRNs employing distributed STBC at the relay nodes. We develop the general model of WRNs using distributed STBC, and we derive the pairwise error probability and an approximation of the BER. We examine the impact of several parameters, such as distributed STBC at the relays, the number of relays, the distances between the nodes, and the channel state information available at the receivers, on the BER performance of the multi‐hop WRN. The obtained results provide guidelines about the expected error performance and the design of channel estimation for these networks. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analysis of selective cooperation in amplify‐and‐forward relay networks over identical Nakagami‐m channels

In cooperative communications, multiple relays between a source and a destination can increase the diversity gain. Because all the nodes must use orthogonal channels, multiple‐relay cooperation becomes spectrally inefficient. Therefore, a bestrelay selection scheme was recently proposed. In this paper, we analyzed the performance of this scheme for a system with the relays operating in amplify‐and‐forward mode over identical Nakagami‐m channels using an exact source–relay–destination signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR).We derived accurate closed‐form expressions for various system parameters including the probability density function of end‐to‐end SNR, the average output SNR, the bit error probability, and the channel capacity. The analytical results were verified through Monte Carlo simulations. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi-antenna Decode and Forward Relay Selection over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

This paper analyzes the performance of opportunistic relay under aggregate power constraint in Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay networks over independent, non-identical, Nakagami-m fading channels, assuming multiple antennas are available at the relay node. According to whether instantaneous Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) or average SNR can be exploited for relay selection, two opportunistic relay schemes, opportunistic multi-antenna relay selection (OMRS) and average best relay selection (ABRS) are proposed. The closed form expressions of outage probability and error performance for binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation of OMRS and ABRS are determined using the moment generating function (MGF) of the total signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination. Simulations are provided to verify the correctness of theoretical analysis. It is observed that OMRS is outage-optimal among multi-antenna relay selection schemes and approaches the Beamforming (BF) scheme known as theoretical outage-optimal very closely. Compared with previous single-antenna Opportunistic Relaying (OR) scheme, OMRS brings remarkable performance improvement obtained from maximum ratio combining (MRC) and beamforming, which proves that multiple antennas at the relays could provide more array gain and diversity order. It also shows that the performance of ABRS in asymmetric channels is close to OMRS in the low and median SNR range.     

放大转发中继网络中的一种中继选择方案

提出了一种放大转发网络中的中继选择方案,假设目的节点配置多个天线,源节点和所有中继节点都配置单个天线,方案选择一组中继同时在相同的频带上放大转发接收到的源节点信息以最大化接收信噪比。与只择一个最优中继的方案相比,方案在保持满分集阶数的情况下获得了更高的中断容量和更优的误符号率性能。与只选择一个最优中继的方案相比,在0.000 01的误符号率水平上,少需要发射功率1.6 dB。     

Performance of Transmit Antenna Selection and Maximal-Ratio Combining in Dual Hop Amplify-and-Forward Relay Network over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

In this paper, we study end-to-end performance of transmit antenna selection (TAS) and maximal ratio combining (MRC) in dual hop amplify-and-forward relay network in flat and asymmetric Nakagami-m fading channels. In the network, source and destination communicate by the help of single relay and source-destination link is not available. Source and destination are equipped with multiple antennas, and relay is equipped with single antenna. TAS and MRC are used for transmission at the source and reception at the destination, respectively. The relay simply amplifies and forwards the signal sent by the source to the destination by using channel state information (CSI) based gain or fixed gain. By considering relay location, for CSI based and fixed relay gains, we derive closed-form cumulative distribution function, moments and moment generating function of end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio, and closed-form symbol error probability expression. Moreover, asymptotical outage probability and symbol error probability expressions are also derived for both CSI based and fixed gains to obtain diversity order of the network. Analytical results are validated by the Monte Carlo simulations. Results show that diversity order is minimum of products of fading parameter and number of antennas at the end in each hop. In addition, for optimum performance the relay must be closer to the source when the diversity order of the first hop is smaller than or equal to that of the second hop.     

A Convolutional-Based Distributed Coded Cooperation Scheme for Relay Channels

In this paper, we consider a coded cooperation diversity scheme that is suitable for $L$-relay channels that operate in the decode–forward mode. The proposed scheme is based on convolutional coding, where each codeword of the source node is partitioned into two frames that are transmitted in two phases. In the first phase, the first frame is broadcast from the source to the relays and destination. In the second phase, the second frame is transmitted on orthogonal subchannels from the source and relay nodes to the destination. Each relay is assumed to be equipped with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code for error detection. Only these relays (whose CRCs check) transmit in the second phase. Otherwise, they keep silent. At the destination, the received replicas (of the second frame) are combined using maximal ratio combining. The entire codeword, which comprises the two frames, is decoded via the Viterbi algorithm. We analyze the proposed scheme in terms of its probability of bit error and outage probability. Explicit upper bounds are obtained, assuming $M$-ary phase-shift keying transmission. Our analytical results show that the full diversity order is achieved, provided that the source-relay link is more reliable than the other links. Otherwise, the diversity degrades. However, in both cases, it is shown that it is possible to achieve substantial performance improvements over noncooperative coded systems. Several numerical and simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed scheme.      

Performance analysis of multiple-antenna cooperative networks under Weibull fading

In wireless communications, cooperative relaying is well-known to enhance the overall system performance, but implementation and cost constraints stand against its wide deployment. This paper investigates the performance of cooperative relays with and without multiple antennas under independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Weibull faded channels in a two-hop wireless network. We consider the Weibull fading channel model due to its flexibility in describing the radio propagation environment more than the classical Rayleigh model. Our study relies on applying selection combining (SC) along with threshold decode and forward (TDF) protocol at the cooperative relays as a good compromise between cost and performance. In addition, maximal ratio combining (MRC) is used at the destination. We derive analytical expressions for the end-to-end (E2E) error performance of the network under such scenario and provide simulation results to confirm the validity of the obtained analytical expressions.     

Asymptotic Distortion Performance of Source-Channel Diversity over Multihop and Relay Channels

A key challenge in the design of real-time wireless multimedia systems is the presence of fading coupled with strict delay constraints. A very effective answer to this problem is the use of diversity achieving techniques to overcome the fading nature of the wireless channels caused by the mobility of the nodes. The mobility of the nodes gives rise to the need of cooperation among the nodes to enhance the system performance. This paper focuses on comparing systems that exhibit diversity of three forms: source coding diversity, channel coding diversity, and user cooperation diversity implemented through multihop or relay channels with amplify-and-forward or decode-and-forward protocols. Commonly used in multimedia communications, performance is measured in terms of the distortion exponent, which measures the rate of decay of the end-to-end distortion at asymptotically high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For the case of repetition coding at the relay nodes, we prove that having more relays is not always beneficial. For the general case of having a large number of relays that can help the source using repetition coding, the optimum number of relay nodes that maximizes the distortion exponent is determined in this paper. This optimum number of relay nodes will depend on the system bandwidth as well as the channel quality. The derived result shows a trade-off between the quality (resolution) of the source encoder and the amount of cooperation (number of relay nodes). Also, the performances of the channel coding diversity-based scheme and the source coding diversity-based scheme are compared. The results show that for both relay and multihop channels, channel coding diversity provides the best performance, followed by the source coding diversity.     

A Semi-Orthogonal Distributed Alamouti Space-Time Codes Design

In this paper, a novel semi-orthogonal distributed Alamouti space-time codes transmission protocol is proposed for a four nodes cooperative communication system consisting of one source, one destination and two semi blind relays over block fading channels. In particular, by semi-orthogonal we mean two orthogonal frequency bands are invoked, one of which is for the transmission by the source node, while the other one is shared simultaneously by the two relay-destination links. Moreover, analytical performances of the proposed semi-orthogonal scheme are investigated in this paper. Specifically, the theoretical expressions of the exact SER and diversity order are presented. Our proposed scheme is capable of achieving higher spectral efficiency and remaining the same diversity order compared to the existing orthogonal one, while attaining better symbol error rate performance and higher diversity order against the non-orthogonal design. Finally, simulation results prove the correctness of the above conclusions and also verify our derivation for the analytical performances.