Energy Savings in OFDM Systems through Cooperative Relaying

Energy savings in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is an active research area. In order to achieve a solution, we propose a new cooperative relaying scheme operated on a per subcarrier basis. This scheme improves the bit error rate (BER) performance of the conventional signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR)‐based selection relaying scheme by substituting SNR with symbol error probability (SEP) to evaluate the received signal quality at the relay more reliably. Since the cooperative relaying provides spatial diversity gain for each subcarrier, thus statistically enhancing the reliability of subcarriers at the destination, the total number of lost subcarriers due to deep fading is reduced. In other words, cooperative relaying can alleviate error symbols in a codeword so that the error correction capability of forward error correction codes can be fully exploited to improve the BER performance (or save transmission energy at a target BER). Monte‐Carlo simulations validate the proposed approach.     

Distributed polar-coded OFDM based on Plotkin’s construction for half duplex wireless communication

A Plotkin-based polar-coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (P-PC-OFDM) scheme is proposed and its bit error rate (BER) performance over additive white gaussian noise (AWGN), frequency selective Rayleigh, Rician and Nakagami-m fading channels has been evaluated. The considered Plotkin’s construction possesses a parallel split in its structure, which motivated us to extend the proposed P-PC-OFDM scheme in a coded cooperative scenario. As the relay’s effective collaboration has always been pivotal in the design of cooperative communication therefore, an efficient selection criterion for choosing the information bits has been inculcated at the relay node. To assess the BER performance of the proposed cooperative scheme, we have also upgraded conventional polar-coded cooperative scheme in the context of OFDM as an appropriate bench marker. The Monte Carlo simulated results revealed that the proposed Plotkin-based polar-coded cooperative OFDM scheme convincingly outperforms the conventional polar-coded cooperative OFDM scheme by 0.5 ~ 0.6 dBs over AWGN channel. This prominent gain in BER performance is made possible due to the bit-selection criteria and the joint successive cancellation decoding adopted at the relay and the destination nodes, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed coded cooperative schemes outperform their corresponding non-cooperative schemes by a gain of 1 dB under an identical condition.     

Performance of OFDM-Based Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Relaying

In this letter, the end-to-end BER performance of a dual-hop OFDM-based relay system is investigated. The relay terminal operates in the amplify-and-forward (AF) mode. We derive the bit error rate (BER) of AF relaying with average power scaling (APS) constraint valid for source-relay link high signal- to-noise ratio conditions. We also study a frequency diversity technique that improves the performance of single antenna AF-APS relaying. The theoretical BER expressions are verified by computer simulations for a 4-QAM modulated OFDM system.     

基于遍历容量的低轨卫星协作通信中继选择算法

在低轨卫星通信系统下行链路中引入协作技术,可获得协作分集增益,从而减小信道衰落的影响。目前在目标通信区域内多星的覆盖率非常高,合适的中继卫星选择策略对于提升卫星通信网络的整体性能至关重要。针对这一问题,本文提出一种基于遍历容量的中继选择算法。该算法借助卫星轨道信息以及统计信道信息,综合考虑卫星本身载荷受限和高动态的特点,通过公平性因子进行遍历容量和能耗之间的折中,选择具有最佳权重遍历容量的节点作为协作卫星。并在此过程中,得到了卫星间协作链路信噪比概率密度闭式表达式,该表达式用来求解协作链路遍历容量。仿真分析表明,该方法可以动态的调整协作卫星的优先级,在误比特率性能和公平性之间可以达到很好的平衡,并且可以在低EIRP情况下提高卫星的服务时间。      

联合子载波抑制与配对的双向DF-PLNC OFDM中继

子载波抑制(SS)技术已被证明能够显著提高正交频分复用(OFDM)系统的误码率性能,因此引起了学术界的广泛关注。在双向OFDM中继网络(TWRN)中,由于两个源节点与中继之间的链路具有独立性,直接应用子载波抑制技术会造成两条链路的活跃子载波具有非对称性,从而导致大量子载波在中继节点无法实现网络编码。提出了一种联合子载波抑制与子载波配对(SP)的双向译码转发(DF)-物理层网络编码(PLNC)OFDM中继系统。该方法对中继两端链路的非对称活跃子载波进行配对,在配对的子载波上发送物理层网络编码信息。仿真结果表明,该方法显著改善了误码率性能,消除了原有的误码平台并且提高了系统的吞吐量性能。     

Adaptive Path Selection Scheme with Combining for Multiple Relaying Cooperative Communications Networks

In future communications, cooperative communications with relay networks will be one of the most effective schemes to enlarge the coverage area and to boost the data rate. In the recent research results, the path selection, power allocation, and relay protocols on relay networks are the most important factors to improve the system performance. However, the channel quality of the direct transmission path and the relaying path has an influential effect on the performance of relay networks. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a best relaying path selection (BRPS) scheme to obtain the path diversity to improve the system capacity and data rate for cooperative networks (CNs). Simulation results show that the more the relay nodes are selected, the lower the bit error rate (BER) is. The proposed BRPS scheme obtains a high concession between both BER and system capacity for CNs.     

A Novel Solution for OFDM Based Relay Systems

In this paper we propose a novel solution for performance enhancement of dual-hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based decode-and-forward (DF) relay system, which assumes that relay station uses more than one antenna for downlink communications and implements transmit antenna selection (TAS) on subcarrier basis jointly with ordered subcarrier mapping (SCM). Ordered SCM is technique where subcarriers from the first hop are mapped to corresponding subcarriers on the second hop in accordance to their instantaneous signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). It is proven to be a mapping scheme that maximizes the achievable ergodic capacity in OFDM based relay systems, while enabling bit error rate (BER) improvement at the same time. In order to assess the level of BER performance improvement in the system proposed in this paper, we analytically derive closed form BER expression of binary phase shift keying modulated OFDM DF relay system with TAS and SCM, assuming a scenario with Rayleigh fading statistics on both hops. Additionally, for further BER reduction, we analyze the combination of TAS with a modified SCM scheme, in which the subcarriers having the lowest SNRs on both hops are omitted. All derived analytical results are completely verified through simulations, showing that significant BER performance improvements are achieved with the novel proposed OFDM relay system, compared to the systems implementing only SCM, or only TAS, which approves that it can be considered as an interesting solution for the next generation of mobile cellular systems.     

Joint power allocation and relay selection for decode-and-forward cooperative relay in secure communication

In this paper, we investigate the cooperative strategy with total power constraint in decode-and-forward (DF) relaying scenario, in the presence of an eavesdropper. Due to the difference of channel for each source-relay link, not all relay nodes have constructive impacts on the achievable secrecy rate. Besides, the final achieved secrecy rate depends on both source-relay and relay-destination links in DF relaying scenario. Therefore, the principal question here is how to select cooperative strategy among relays with proper power allocation to maximize the secrecy rate. Three strategies are considered in this paper. First, we investigate the cooperative jamming (CJ) strategy, where one relay with achieved target transmission rate is selected as a conventional relay forwarding signal, and remaining relays generate artificial noise via CJ strategy to disrupt the eavesdropper. Two CJ schemes with closed-form solutions, optimal cooperative jamming (OCJ) and null space cooperative jamming (NSCJ), are proposed. With these solutions, the corresponding power allocation is formulated as a geometric programming (GP) problem and solved efficiently by convex programming technique. Then, to exploit the cooperative diversity, we investigate the cooperative relaying (CR) strategy. An iterative algorithm using semi-definite programming (SDP) and GP together with bisection search method is proposed to optimize the cooperative relaying weight and power allocated to the source and relays. Furthermore, to exploit the advantages of both CR and CJ, we propose an adaptive strategy to enhance the security. Simulation results demonstrate that the efficiency of the proposed cooperative strategies in terms of secrecy rate.     

多用户SIMO-OFDM系统中的协作分集性能分析

协作分集使得在多用户环境下,具有单天线的多个终端可以共享彼此的天线,以形成一个虚拟的天线阵列结构,实现空域分集。首先介绍了多用户SIMO—OFDM系统中的两种协作方式,放大前传和译码前传。然后针对源结点和目的结点之间是否存在路径损耗,提出了一种基于信道状态信息的选择中继协作方式,并对系统性能进行了理论和仿真分析。仿真结果表明,这种基于信道状态信息的选择中继协作方式可以获得较好的系统性能。     

Asynchronous diversity receiving scheme and analysis on cooperative relay networks简

The transmission antennas of cooperative systems are spatially distributed on multiple nodes, so the received signal can be asynchronous due to propagation delays. A receiving scheme for cooperative relay networks is proposed, multiple asynchronous signals are reconstructed at the receiver by forward and backward interference cancellation, which can obtain gains of cooperative transmission diversity with obvious delay and with no requiring timing synchronization or orthogonal channelization between relays. Analysis and simulation show that the bit error rate（BER） of the proposed scheme is similar to Alamouti code, and the scheme has the diversity order of orthogonal transmission scheme accompanied by minimal BER losses. It is demonstrated that the performance can be further improved by adding an error correcting code（ECC）.     

一种基于非正交信道的分布式中继选择及功率分配方法

针对非正交两跳多中继协作通信系统中的分布式中继选择问题,提出了一种基于非正交信道的中继选择准则,简化了系统的设计。分析了其误码率性能,给出了其解析表达式和以总功率为约束条件下的最优功率分配方案。仿真结果表明,最佳中继选择准则明显优于传统的中继选择准则,且在最优功率分配方案下,可以获得明显的分集增益,系统的误码率显著下降。     

Resource optimization in distributed cooperative multi-relay system based on STBC-OFDM

On the basis of the amplify-and-forward relaying mode, a two-hop distributed cooperative multi-relay system is proposed combining with the space-time block coding OFDM (STBC-OFDM) technique. Taking the maximum end-to-end data rate as optimization criterion, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of receiving terminal is deduced. On the basis of the water-filling theory, the optimal power allocation (OPA) is achieved for each subcarrier in each antenna and each relay node (RN) of the two-hop, to realize the resource optimization. Monte Carlo method is adopted in simulation. The simulation results show that compared with the uniform resource allocation scheme, the proposed OPA strategy can improve the system capacity. And the energy consumption of each transmission bit will be decreased, indicating the improvement of resource efficiency. In the scenario that the total power is limited, the system performance can be enhanced further by the distributed cooperative multi-relay through the diversity gain.     

基于协作干扰的全双工中继系统混合安全传输协议

针对全双工中继系统的安全问题,提出一种基于协作干扰的物理层安全混合传输协议.系统根据自身信道状态信息,自适应地选择基于中继节点与信源节点轮流发送干扰(RSCJ)协议或基于中继节点与目的节点轮流发送干扰(RDCJ)协议中安全容量相对较高的协议进行信息的传输.在全双工节点自干扰因素被抑制的条件下,给出了系统的传输协议选择策略,并理论推导了采用RSCJ或RDCJ传输协议下系统的安全中断概率表达式.仿真结果表明,利用所提的混合安全传输协议可以显著提高全双工中继系统的安全中断性能,与传统未利用协作干扰的传输机制相比,具有明显的安全性能优势.     

A Proposed H-STCDD Scheme in Cooperative Communication System

In this paper, the hierarchical space time cyclic delay diversity (H-STCDD) scheme is proposed. Proposed scheme uses hierarchical modulation and achieves approximately full rate. It also uses a cyclic delay diversity scheme, which improves the benefit of channel coding particularly in high SNR environment between source to relay and source to destination. According to simulation result, proposed scheme has up to 2.2 dB better BER performance than conventional cooperative scheme at BER of 10^?3 and has similar BER performance with the STCDD scheme particularly in high SNR environment between source to relay and source to destination. Throughput of the proposed scheme is better than those of other cooperative schemes. Therefore proposed scheme is more efficient than other cooperative scheme and can be efficiently used in high SNR environment between source to relay and source to destination.     

Improving physical layer security via cooperative diversity in energy‐constrained cognitive radio networks with multiple eavesdroppers

In this paper, a scheme that exploits cooperative diversity of multiple relays to provide physical layer security against an eavesdropping attack is concerned. Relay‐based cognitive radio network (CRN) faces issues multiple issues other than the same as faced by conventional wireless communications. If the nodes in a CRN are able to harvest energy and then spend less energy than the total energy available, we can ensure a perpetual lifetime for the network. In this paper, an energy‐constrained CRN is considered where relay nodes are able to harvest energy. A cooperative diversity‐based relay and subchannel‐selection algorithm is proposed, which selects a relay and a subchannel to achieve the maximum secrecy rate while keeping the energy consumed under a certain limit. A transmission power factor is also selected by the algorithm, which ensures long‐term operation of the network. The power allocation problem at the selected relay and at the source also satisfies the maximum‐interference constraint with the primary user (PU). The proposed scheme is compared with a variant of the proposed scheme where the relays are assumed to have an infinite battery capacity (so maximum transmission power is available in every time slot) and is compared with a scheme that uses jamming for physical layer security. The simulation results show that the infinite battery‐capacity scheme outperforms the jamming‐based physical layer security scheme, thus validating that cooperative diversity‐based schemes are suitable to use when channel conditions are better employed, instead of jamming for physical layer security.     

Asymmetric diversity modulation scheme in wireless fading relay channels

In this paper, we propose an asymmetric diversity modulation (ADM) scheme for a single-source relay system that utilizes the relay?s higher transmission ability as a form of diversity. To achieve this, the proposed method transmits multiple source bits over a high-order modulating relay as a way to provide additional time diversity. The spatial and time diversity then undergo `bit?-based combining at the destination. Using the proposed `bit?-based channel combining method, we derive the theoretical bit error rate (BER) for such a system. Moreover, we investigate the fact that the proposed scheme shows a performance trade-off between bit power and time diversity resulting from the reduced bit power caused by a high-order modulating relay.     

Relay Selection Algorithm with Simplified Precoding for MIMO Multiple Relay Channels

Considering an Amplify-and-Forward (AF) cooperative network with the help of multiple relay nodes, a relay selection algorithm with simplified precoder is proposed for the two-hop relay channels. This new algorithm based on the approximate received signal-noise rate (SNR), which chooses only one relay with the maximal received SNR gain to assist in transmission, can significantly reduce the required system consumption, achieve excellent bit-error-rate (BER) and average throughput, and maintain full diversity order. Simulation results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed scheme with a low complexity approaches to the optimal iteration method. And for practical situation with distance attenuation factor, the performance gain of our scheme is also in evident.     

Nelder‐Mead–based power optimization for secrecy enhancement in amplify‐and‐forward cooperative relay networks

Cooperative communication based on relaying nodes has been considered as a promising technique to increase the physical layer security (PLS) performance in wireless communications. In this paper, an optimal power allocation (OPA) scheme based on Nelder‐Mead (NM) algorithm is proposed for improving the secrecy rate of amplify‐and‐forward (AF) cooperative relay networks employing cooperative jamming (CJ) scheme. The proposed hybrid jamming scheme allows the source and selected relay to transmit the jamming signal along with the information to confound the eavesdropper. The path selection probability of ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is used for selecting the relay for transmission. The performance based on secrecy rate is evaluated for “n” trusted relays distributed dispersedly between the source and destination. Gradient‐based optimization and three‐dimensional exhaustive search methods are used as benchmark schemes for comparison of the proposed power optimization algorithm. The secrecy performance is also compared with conventional AF scheme and CJ scheme without power optimization (EPA). The impact of single and multiple relays on secrecy performance is also evaluated. Numerical results reveal that, compared with the gradient method and exhaustive search algorithm, the proposed power allocation strategy achieves optimal performance. Also, the derived OPA results show a significantly higher secrecy rate than the EPA strategy for both CJ and AF schemes.     

一种 1x2x4分布式空时编码异步协作方案

协作分集技术可以有效提高移动通信系统的容量和可靠性。近年来,分布式空时码（DSTC）被广泛应用到协作分集系统以实现空间分集增益。然而,时间异步和频率异步会使正交DSTC的码字结构受到破坏,严重影响系统性能。本文针对时间异步的协作通信系统,提出一种基于分布式Alamouti STBC的1x2x4异步协作方案。对这种方案进行了理论分析和算法推导,并且重新定义了中继节点归一化后的发射信号幅度。仿真结果表明该方案的误比特率性能具有明显优势,能在时间异步的协作通信系统中很好地发挥多天线接收性能。     

Distributive High-Rate Space–Frequency Codes Achieving Full Cooperative and Multipath Diversities for Asynchronous Cooperative Communications

In user-cooperative communications, relay nodes are usually asynchronous. By realizing that the processing in the frequency domain is insensitive to the errors in the time domain, Mei and Shin recently applied the space-time-coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technique to achieve full cooperative diversity for asynchronous cooperative communications, where orthogonal space-time block codes (particularly the Alamouti code) were used for relay nodes. In this paper, we consider asynchronous cooperative communications, and the channels from one node to another node are frequency-selective fading. We propose a high-rate space-frequency coding method and prove that it can achieve both cooperative and multipath diversities. Simulation results are shown to verify the performance of the constructed codes.