A cross-layer protocol for exploiting cooperative diversity in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks

Cooperative communication has emerged to reap the benefits of spatial diversity. To fully exploit cooperative diversity, we propose a medium access control and routing enabled cross-layer cooperative transmission (MACR-CCT) protocol for improving the performance in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks (MWAN). Different from previous cooperative protocols that determine a receiver in one hop according to a non-cooperative routing protocol first and then select a cooperative relay, MACR-CCT selects the cooperative relay together with the receiver in one hop to exploit fully cooperative diversity, so that the receiver is selected for higher cooperative gain and closer distance to destination, and the relay is selected to achieve the better throughput performance while considering transmission error. Furthermore, considering that there are multiple source–destination pairs in MWAN, MACR-CCT takes interference mitigation into account to further improve network throughput when selecting the cooperative relay. Besides, we propose a theoretical model to analyze the throughput performance. Finally, we take advantage of simulation results to validate the effectiveness of our analytical model and show that our proposed MACR-CCT protocol can significantly outperform existing packet transmission mechanisms in terms of throughput and delay under the multi-hop multi-flow network scenario.     

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.     

异步协同系统频选信道下基于线性预处理的DSTC结构设计

在协同中继系统中,应用分布式空时码(Distributed Space Time Coding, DSTC),可以在有效提高系统效率的同时获得全协同分集。但是,各中继节点的异步传输和节点间的多径衰落会破坏空时码字的结构,使之不能获得全分集。本文针对两中继的异步协同系统,提出了一种频率选择性信道下的基于线性预处理的DSTC传输结构。在此传输结构中,源节点对发送数据块进行预处理后发送给中继节点,中继节点对接收信号进行简单的共轭重排等处理,使得在目的节点形成DSTC的结构。其中,为抵抗异步传输和多径衰落引入的符号间干扰(Inter-symbol Interference, ISI),在源节点处和中继节点处均加入循环前缀(Cyclic Prefix, CP)。于是目的节点对接收到的信号进行DFT处理后,可以运用ML算法对数据信息进行检测。理论分析和仿真表明,当存在定时误差和节点间为频率选择性信道时,目的节点运用ML检测算法该传输结构可获得全空间分集和全多径分集。然后,本文考虑了信道各径延迟为整数倍符号周期的情况,并且证明了该传输结构的分集增益只与节点间信道的有效信道长度有关。      

信源间全双工协作通信的空时编码算法研究

研究了具有三个全双工源节点的协作通信系统,为提升系统有效性和可靠性,提出了两种信源间全双工协作通信的空时编码方案.将正交空时码理论应用其中,可以有效利用空间分集增益,抵抗多径衰落,提高系统性能.方案分为共享兼传输阶段与协作传输阶段.在共享兼传输阶段进行信源间的信息共享同时也会向目的节点发送信息,在协作传输阶段,源节点间...     

协作通信系统的中继选择算法研究

协作通信作为一种新颖的无线通信技术,它的主要思想是通过中继节点参与协作传输,在目的端获得两个或者多个在空间上独立的信号样本,实现空间分集,获得分集增益.因此如何合理选择中继节点成为协作通信的关键问题之一.本文在协作通信模型及原理的基础上,对基于信道状态信息的中继选择算法进行了介绍,并对具体的选择算法的性能进行了仿真.     

Partially-coherent distributed space-time codes with differential encoder and decoder

Distributed space-time coding is a mean of achieving diversity through cooperative communication in a wireless relay network. In this paper, we consider a transmission protocol that follows a two-stage model: transmission from source to relays in the first stage, followed by a simple relaying technique from relays to destination. The relays transmit a vector which is a transformation of the received vector by a relay-specific unitary transformation. We assume that the relays do not have any channel information, while the destination has only a partial-channel knowledge, by which we mean that destination knows only the relay-to-destination channel. For such a setup, we derive a Chernoff bound on the pairwise error probability and propose code design criteria. A second contribution is the differential encoding and decoding scheme for this setup, which is different from the existing ones. Furthermore, differential codes from cyclic division algebra are proposed that achieve full diversity. For our setup with two relays, a Generalized PSK code is shown to achieve full diversity, for which the decoding complexity is independent of code size     

A cooperative phase steering scheme in multi-relay node environments

We propose a decode-and-forward (DF) based cooperative phase steering scheme and analyze its outage probability. The cooperative phase steering scheme is to make the received signals from multiple relay nodes co-phased at a destination node by pre-adjusting the phase differences.With a reasonable amount of feedback information from a destination node, the cooperative phase steering scheme circumvents the drawbacks of conventional cooperative diversity techniques such as maximal ratio combining (MRC) reception, maximal ratio transmission (MRT), and opportunistic relay selection schemes. Our analytical and simulation results show that the cooperative phase steering scheme outperforms the opportunistic relay selection scheme and approaches the MRT scheme known as a theoretically optimal cooperative diversity technique. It is also shown that cooperative phase steering has sufficient robustness to phase incoherence.     

Joint design of physical and MAC layer by applying the constellation rearrangement technique in cooperative multi-hop networks

Cooperative diversity schemes can be seen as an extension of spatial diversity systems, where distributed antennas are placed in relay nodes distributed in space as compared to a single multi-antenna source or receiver in conventional spatial diversity systems. Such cooperative communication systems improve the diversity gain significantly. In this paper a cross layer optimization scheme, based on cooperative diversity along with constellation rearrangement, is proposed for minimizing energy toll and enhancing the network longevity. By utilizing a cross-layer cooperative strategy, distributive algorithms are proposed for the dependability restriction multi-hop networks. We demonstrate through simulations that the proposed cross-layer cooperative strategies along with constellation rearrangement achieve considerable energy savings and extend the network longevity significantly. Finally the proposed scheme is evaluated through NS2 simulations in terms of throughput and delay.     

Performance analysis of distributed space-time coded protocols for wireless multi-hop communications

In resource limited, large scale sensor networks, cooperative communication over multiple hops offers opportunities to save power: intermediate nodes between source and destination act as cooperative relays. In order to exploit spatial diversity, protocols coupled with space-time coding strategies are proposed herein and analyzed for distributed cooperative communication. In contrast to prior work, multi-hop (versus two-hop) schemes are developed and analyzed for amplify-andforward type of communication protocols. First, the Alamoutibased two-hop scheme proposed by Hua et al and analyzed by Jing & Hassibi is generalized to an arbitrary number of hops L, and a general approximation for the pairwise error probability (PEP) at high SNR is obtained. This expression is used to provide a close approximation to the achievable diversity gain of the scheme. It is further shown that the diversity decreases with L, for large, but finite signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This motivates the subsequent development of new distributed multihop protocols to mitigate the diversity losses and, hence, yield improved performance. This work presents two such strategies as well as their diversity characterization, which are analyzed for the specific case of L = 3 hops and shown to exhibit improved performance at high SNR. These schemes are based on the structure of the rate-half codes proposed by Tarokh and the square-matrix embeddable codes of Tirkkonen & Hottinen.     

一种用于AdHoc网络的协同MAC协议

基于IEEE802．11 DCF模型,利用协同分集技术,提出了一种适用于AdHoc网络的协同MAC协议。此协议在目的节点实时选择传输模式和协同节点,可有效减小节点移动和信道变化对网络性能产生的影响。同时,利用分集技术,对源节点和协同节点的数据信号进行最大比合并（MRC）,可有效提高系统的可靠性。仿真结果表明,在文中的仿真条件下,和传统IEEE802．11DCF协议相比,该协议在系统分组递交率和延迟性能上分别提高了20％和50％。     

Cooperative diversity performance for OFDM transmission over partially jammed channels

Cooperative diversity is a transmission technique, where multiple terminals share their resources to form a virtual antenna array that realizes spatial diversity gain in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we focus on a performance evaluation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission in cooperative networks under partial-band jamming (PBJ) environments. We present a bit error rate (BER) analysis for a cooperative diversity system with amplifying-and-forward (AF) relays over partially jammed Rayleigh fading channels. In addition, a simple jamming mitigation technique, called relay-based sub-band shifting method, is proposed. Through this approach, each sub-band of the amplified OFDM symbol at the relay can be changed by the predefined shifting rule of each relay, and the jamming effects at the destination are partially removed. Simulation results show that the proposed method improves significantly the BER performance at a low signal-to-jamming ratio.     

Space-time block codes from cyclic design

It has been proved that full-rate complex orthogonal space-time block codes do not exist for systems with more than two transmit antennas. In this paper, we present a space-time block coding scheme based on cyclic design. The proposed codes provide full rate and full diversity for quaternary phase shift keying (QPSK) symbols in systems with three or four transmit antennas.     

一种在宽带无线网络环境下的协作分集方法

协作通信可以使单天线的移动终端共享它们的天线而产生虚拟多发射天线阵列以获得发射分集。提出了一种在频率选择性衰落信道条件下的协作分集方法,信宿不仅利用转接节点转发的信号而且还利用了信源直接传来的信号来进行解码。通过计算机仿真,比较了考虑信源到信宿的直接传输的协作方法和未考虑信源到信宿的直接传输的协作方法的误比特率性能。结果表明,考虑信源到信宿的直接传输可提高系统的协作分集增益。     

异步协作通信中三协作方信道与延迟估计算法

无线通信是采用多节点协作分集方式发送信号的,故具有很大的优势,但缺点是所传输的信号是异步的,因此采用协作分集方式发送信号亟需消除这种异步的影响。为此,给出了块平坦衰落信道延迟估计算法,采用训练序列附加在信息码上作为循环前缀,通过循环前缀来获得已知符号,再利用已知符号来消除异步。结果表明,该方案完全能消除异步,信道估计达到了克拉默拉奥下限,误码率和MRC（最大比合并）方式相同,且带有完全的分集阶数,初步达到了消除信号异步影响的目的。     

Power allocation of cooperative amplify-and-forward communications with multiple relays

Cooperative diversity is one of the most effective ways to mitigate the fading effect of wireless channels and obtain the spatial gain in wireless networks.In this paper,an optimal power allocation(OPA)scheme for a cooperative communication system using the amplify-and-forward(AF)transmit strategy with multiple relay users is proposed by minimizing the bit-error-rate(BER)at the destination under the constraint of the total transmit power of both the source user and the relay users.Simulation results indicate that the proposed power allocation method can achieve significant BER performance improvement than using the equal power allocation(EPA)scheme,while still attains low complexity.The system performance is improved significantly with the increasing of the number of relay users at high signal-noise ratio(SNR).However,at low SNR,the system performance decreases when the relay number increases.Thus,an adaptive relay selection scheme may be used to choose the appropriate relay numbers in different transmission scenarios to provide system performance improvement and keep the power allocation scheme with low complexity.     

Delay Models of Single-Source Single-Relay Cooperative ARQ Protocols in Slotted Radio Networks With Poisson Frame Arrivals

In conventional (noncooperative) automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocols for radio networks, the corrupted data frames that cannot be correctly decoded at the destination are retransmitted by the source. In cooperative ARQ protocols, data frame retransmissions may be performed by a neighboring node (the relay) that has successfully overheard the source's frame transmission. One advantage of the latter group of ARQ protocols is the spatial diversity provided by the relay. The first delay model for cooperative ARQ protocols is derived in this paper. The model is analytically derived for a simple set of retransmission rules that make use of both uncoded and coded cooperative communications in slotted radio networks. The model estimates the delay experienced by Poisson arriving frames, whose retransmissions (when required) are performed also by a single relay. Saturation throughput, data frame latency, and buffer occupancy at both the source and relay are quantified and compared against two noncooperative ARQ protocols.     

On channel orthogonalization using space-time block coding with partial feedback

Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) yield full diversity gain even while requiring only a linear receiver. Such full-rate (rate-one) orthogonal designs are available for complex symbol constellations only for N=2 transmit antennas. In this paper, we propose a new family of full-rate space-time block codes (STBCs) using a single parameter feedback for communication over Rayleigh fading channels for N=3,4 transmit antennas and M receive antennas. The proposed rate-one codes achieve full diversity, and the performance is similar to maximum receiver ratio combining. The decoding complexity of these codes are only linear even while performing maximum-likelihood decoding. The partial channel information is a real phase parameter that is a function of all the channel gains, and has a simple closed-form expression for N=3,4. This feedback information enables us to derive (channel) orthogonal designs starting from quasi-orthogonal STBCs. The feedback complexity is significantly lower than conventional closed-loop transmit beamforming. We compare the proposed codes with the open-loop OSTBCs and also with the closed-loop equal gain transmission (EGT) scheme which uses equal power loading on all antennas. Simulated error-rate performances indicate that the proposed channel orthogonalized STBCs significantly outperform the open-loop orthogonal designs, for the same spectral efficiency. Moreover, even with significantly lower feedback and computational complexity, the proposed scheme outperforms the EGT technique for M>N.     

Non-coherent distributed space-time processing for multiuser cooperative transmissions

User cooperation can provide spatial transmit diversity gains, enhance coverage and potentially increase capacity. Existing works have focused on two-user cooperative systems with perfect channel state information at the receivers. In this paper, we develop several distributed space-time processing schemes for general N-user cooperative systems, which do not require channel state information at either relays or destination. We prove that full spatial diversity gain can be achieved in such systems. Simulations demonstrate that these cooperative schemes achieve significant performance gain     

编码协作MARC上全分集LDPC码的实现与性能分析

本文研究了多接入中继信道(MARC)上全分集LDPC码的实现与性能。首先,分析了MARC模型及其固有分集,然后构造了在MARC上能取得全分集的LDPC码,新构造的码字采用根校验节点把源节点传输与中继节点传输联系起来,从而获得全分集。接着,研究了所构造码字的密度演化过程,在密度演化的基础上,进一步分析了全分集LDPC码校验矩阵的结构,给出了通过提高全分集校验比特的比例,改善全分集LDPC码在MARC上编码增益的方法。仿真结果表明,本文所提算法在MARC信道上不仅能实现全分集,而且能取得较高的编码增益。     

一种无线Mesh网络中基于协同通信的多包接收方法

协同通信容许移动节点共享彼此的天线以构建虚拟多入多出系统,可有效获得空间分集增益。为利用虚拟多入多出信道的分集增益,该文提出了一种在无线Mesh网络上行链路中采用协同策略的多包接收方法。该方法中提出由发生冲突的Mesh终端及其协同节点构建虚拟多入多出信道,且多天线Mesh路由器通过串行干扰消除算法来快速分离冲突包。理论分析和仿真结果表明该方法可充分利用空间资源,相比NDMA和TDMA可有效提高系统的有效吞吐量并降低时延。