协作通信中的解码转发中继策略优化

在单中继协作通信系统模型下,研究了直接传输、固定解码转发（ DF）中继、选择DF中继和增量中继协议。为了提高协作通信系统的频谱效率和中断性能,通过比较源-目的端和中继-目的端的瞬时信道增益来判定是否需要采用协同通信模式,提出一种改进的解码转发方式（ IDF）。通过将选择DF中继和增量中继的优点结合,提出了一种增量选择中继（ ISR）策略,并给出了2种改进协议任意信噪比的中断概率表达式。仿真结果表明,与传统的单中继解码转发协议相比, IDF和ISR均具有更低的中断概率, ISR具有最低的中断概率。     

多用户多中继系统下协作NOMA的中断性能

在基于非正交多址接入技术(NOMA)的多用户多中继协作中继网络中,为优先满足混叠信号中的时延敏感信息的服务质量(QoS)需求,对功率因子进行了简单分析,进而找到了关于信道增益的解码限制条件。在给定中继的情况下,根据解码限制条件建立用户集合,进而找到可以使高QoS信号速率最大化的用户中继对作为最佳“用户-中继”来传递信号。并且对该“用户-中继”选择方案下的系统中断概率的表达式进行推导并求出了其渐进式。仿真结果验证了推导结果的正确性,系统的中断概率随着节点数目的增多而降低,而当信噪比趋于无穷时,系统的分集增益取决于用户数目和中继数目。且与已有文献进行对比,本文提出的用户中继匹配方案的中断性能相对较好。     

Nakagami-m衰落信道下固定增益中继系统性能分析

 在Nakagami-m衰落信道下,分析了两跳固定增益放大转发中继通信系统的性能.首先采用基于概率密度函数(PDF)的性能分析法推导了无协作分集时系统的中断概率和平均误符号率(ASER)的闭合表达式,然后采用基于矩生成函数(MGF)的方法推导了有协作分集时系统的中断概率和ASER表达式以及接收信噪比的n阶矩的闭合表达式.仿真结果显示,所推导的闭合表达式与数值仿真结果吻合良好,协作分集和较大的m值可提升系统性能,中继前后两跳的信道质量对系统性能的影响并不相同.     

有限反馈机会中继通信系统的中断概率性能

该文针对放大转发机会中继通信系统,研究了有限反馈条件下系统的中断概率及分集性能。在有限反馈条件下,量化误差将影响最优中继的选择进而恶化机会中继通信系统的性能。该文首先推导了有限反馈条件下机会中继系统的中断概率近似表达式,并在此基础上分析获得两个结论:在有限反馈条件下,无论备选中继数目为何,系统的分集阶数可达且只可达到2;当备选中继个数一定时,随着反馈比特数的增加,系统中断概率将趋近于选择最佳中继节点所能获得的性能。仿真结果验证了中断概率的理论表达式及其分析结论,可为有限反馈条件下的中继传输协议设计提供理论支持。     

基于中断概率的协作通信中继选择与功率分配算法

研究了功率受限情况下多中继协作通信网络的中继选择和功率优化问题。在AF网络中,提出了一种低复杂度中继选择与功率分配算法,其目标是在总功率一定的条件下使系统的中断概率最小。本算法对源节点和所有潜在中继节点进行功率分配,结合当前信噪比选择最优的中继集合,通过最速下降法求出使系统中断概率最低的功率分配因子。该算法不需要知道大量瞬时信道信息、不需要系统在等功率条件下进行中继选择,只需求得中继节点排列矩阵便可根据当前信噪比自适应获得最优中继节点集合。仿真结果表明,在相同条件下,该算法明显优于不同中继节点集合下几种算法的中断性能,并且与传统的SAF及AAF算法相比,有效降低了中断概率,提升了系统性能和功率效率。     

基于准正交空时分组码的多中继协作方案

根据准正交空时分组码提出了一种基于选择中继协议的多中继协作方案。从两个方面讨论了该方案的空间分集性能,通过分析成对差错概率证明,若所有的中继都正确译码,该方案可以获得全分集增益;若某些中继不能正确译码,该方案仍可以获得部分分集增益。将所提方案与使用正交空时分组码的协作方案进行比较,仿真结果表明,在信噪比较高时,两个方案都可获得全分集增益,但所提方案具有更高的编码增益。而当信噪比变低时,所提方案具有更高的分集增益和编码增益。     

空时协作系统的中断概率分析和功率分配研究

提出了选择中继协议下最小化系统中断概率的最优功率分配方案,并给出了最佳功率分配的闭式解。根据协作节点间是否存在交互信息,分别通过对系统中断概率的分析,推出了高信噪比下中断概率的理论界。基于理论界,在功率受限情况下,通过拉格朗日乘数法,得到最优功率分配的闭合解。仿真结果表明,所推理论界在高信噪比下与仿真值近似相等,最优功率分配点的系统性能也要优于其它功率分配点。     

多用户协作和中继的性能分析与比较

以蜂窝网的下行线路为例,描述了不采用协作、多用户协作、基于最优用户选择的多用户协作、多中继协作和基于最优中继选择的多中继协作等五种模式的具体场景和时隙分配示意图,给出了五种模式下的基站和目的用户之间的互信息和一帧内所消耗的总能量。对五种模式下中断概率进行了数值仿真。理论分析和仿真结果表明,多用户协作能获得较大的分集增益,而多中继协作的能量效率较高。信噪比受限条件下,无论多用户协作还是多中继协作,采用协作选择技术后,能量效率更高。     

低信噪比下增强型解码转发协作的性能分析

研究了接收节点将其译码状态反馈给其他节点这一增强性手段对解码转发协作的性能改善情况.推导了低信噪比条件下,增量中继、选择中继的中断概率和吞吐量表达式,给出了中断概率的三阶近似式.结合增量中继、选择中继的各自优点,提出了一种联合中继模式.理论分析和数值仿真表明,提出的联合中继模式在中断概率和吞吐量2个方面性能优越.     

放大转发中继器降低发射功率的选择策略研究

文章针对传统多中继放大转发协作通信网络中所有潜在中继均参与协作,导致系统所需发射功率增加的问题,提出了一种中继节点选择策略。该策略以最小化系统中断概率为目标,引入了中继节点的选择门限,并据此逐一令低于门限的中继节点不参与协作,将其资源重新分配给其他节点,从而降低系统整体所需发射功率。中继节点选择策略运算开销小,且选择门限只与中继节点数、平均信道增益以及当前系统信噪比有关,可在传输开始前确定而无需实时更新,从而节省了系统开销。仿真实验表明,在相同的信噪比条件下,该策略在满足一定的中断概率条件下,可以有效降低发射功率。     

Outage Performance of Cognitive AF Relay Networks with Imperfect CSI Based on Geometrical Analysis

This paper studies the outage performance of a cognitive Amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network subject to Rayleigh fading.Under the condition of imperfect Channel state information (CSI) estimations of the links from the secondary system to the Primary user (PU),the closed-form upper and lower bounds of the outage probability are derived through a geometrical analysis method.An asymptotic analysis of the outage probability is also derived in the high Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime to gain additional insights on the system.The simulation results corroborate our theoretical analysis,and the effectiveness of the geometrical analysis method is verified with the conventional approach as a benchmark.The asymptotic results are very tight with the analytical lower bound in the high SNR regime.It also can be observed from the simulation results that the impact of the number of relays as well as the imperfect CSI on the outage probability and the diversity order.     

Outage Probability of Selection Cooperation in the Low to Medium SNR Regime

Selection has been shown to be an effective and practical method of implementing cooperative diversity. However, the available analysis has largely focused on diversity order and the asymptotically high signal to noise ratio (SNR) regimes. We approximate the outage probability of selection cooperation for all SNR levels and arbitrary channel distributions. The approximations are significantly better than the available high-SNR approximations for practical values of outage probability.     

Joint Relay and Antenna Selection in MIMO PLNC Inter-vehicular Communication Systems over Cascaded Fading Channels

We investigate the joint relay and antenna selection performance in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication system employing physical layer network coding (PLNC) with amplify-and-forward (AF) scheme at the relay antenna. Analytic results are derived under the cascaded Nakagami-m fading channel model assumption, which covers cascaded Rayleigh and conventional cellular channel models as well. We evaluate the performance of the system in terms of joint outage probability of sources and derive closed-form expressions for lower and upper bounds while an exact expression is found as a single integral form. Besides, the asymptotic diversity order is analyzed and quantified as a function of number of relays and antennas installed on the source and relay vehicles, and channel parameters. Finally, we verify the analytic derivations by computer simulations. Our results show that the outage probability performance decreases with the increasing cascading degrees of the channels but joint relay and antenna selection enhances the performance of the system superbly with the increasing number of relays and antennas. Also it is shown throughout all the simulation results, the lower bound for the joint outage probability seems to consistently be well tight for large SNR. Therefore it can be used for practical design of inter-vehicular communication systems which contain multiple relays and antennas.     

非正交多址接入系统中的联合中继选择和用户配对算法

针对多用户NOMA中继系统,文中提出了一种联合中继选择和用户配对算法。该算法首先利用最小距离准则选择最优次级用户与主用户配对,然后进行最优中继选择来改善系统中断性能。根据系统模型的分析,推导了系统中断概率的准确表达式,并分析了高信噪比条件下的渐近中断性能。系统分集阶数的研究说明了所提NOMA中继系统相比于传统单中继NOMA系统的优越性。最后,蒙特卡洛仿真结果验证了理论分析的正确性。     

非理想SIC下全双工NOMA系统的安全性能分析

针对存在多个非共谋窃听者,研究了一种基于全双工中继和两阶段中继选择（TSRS）的非正交多址接入（NOMA）物理层安全通信方案。每个通信过程包含一个传输时隙,系统在每个时隙开始由TSRS策略选择最优中继,所选中继在从源节点接收NOMA叠加信号的同时,向两个目的节点转发上一时隙的再编码叠加信号,两个目的节点采用串行干扰消除（SIC）技术从中继叠加信号中解码获取各自的期望信号。推导了非理想SIC下系统安全中断概率的近似表达式,进行了蒙特卡洛（Monte-Carlo）仿真验证,同时分析了各仿真参数（SIC残余干扰系数、目标安全速率、中继规模等）与系统安全中断概率的关系。理论分析与模拟仿真的结果表明,全双工技术与TSRS的结合方案能有效提升系统的安全中断性能。将该方案应用于实际通信系统设计时,选择合适传输信噪比（SNR）、提高串行干扰消除能力或适当增加中继数量均可实现更好的保密性能。     

放大转发下分布式协作传输链路选择算法

针对放大转发下的多中继无线协作系统中的传输链路选择问题进行了研究。提出了一种分布式链路选择算法,对提出算法系统中断性能进行了理论分析,给出中断性能在高信噪比下的渐进结果。理论及仿真结果表明:①建议算法在获得N+1阶分集增益的同时能得到与中心式选择算法相近的系统性能;②建议算法的反馈信令开销小于2 bit;③直传链路信道状态对系统性能的影响大于中继链路信道状态对系统的影响。     

PHY-layer Fairness in Amplify and Forward Cooperative Diversity Systems

We deal with the concept of physical-layer fairness in amplify and forward cooperative diversity systems, which reflects the need for equally allocating the consumed power among the relays. To this end, we propose a method which utilizes knowledge on both the instantaneous and average channel conditions in order to encompass this concept, by attributing a weight coefficient to each relay depending on its average channel state and then selecting the relay with the best instantaneous "weighted" channel conditions. We also provide a performance analysis of the proposed scheme that includes an analytical expression for the outage probability, together with a closed form one in the high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) regime. Through the latter expression, the average symbol error probability (ASEP) for high SNRs is also derived. Numerical results demonstrate that, for small number of available relays or for high SNRs, the performance of the proposed scheme resembles that of the "best relay selection" scheme, in terms of outage probability and ASEP, despite maintaining the average power consumptions equal.     

Outage Capacity of the Fading Relay Channel in the Low-SNR Regime

In slow-fading scenarios, cooperation between nodes can increase the amount of diversity for communication. We study the performance limit in such scenarios by analyzing the outage capacity of slow fading relay channels. Our focus is on the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and low outage probability regime, where the adverse impact of fading is greatest but so are the potential gains from cooperation. We showed that while the standard Amplify-Forward protocol performs very poorly in this regime, a modified version we called the Bursty Amplify-Forward protocol is optimal and achieves the outage capacity of the network. Moreover, this performance can be achieved without a priori channel knowledge at the receivers. In contrast, the Decode-Forward protocol is strictly suboptimal in this regime. Our results directly yield the outage capacity per unit energy of fading relay channels     

Performance analysis of single relay selection in rayleigh fading

We provide closed-form expressions for the outage and bit error probability (BEP) of uncoded, threshold-based opportunistic relaying (OR) and selection cooperation (SC), at arbitrary signal to noise ratios (SNRs) and number of available relays, assuming decode-and-forward relays and Rayleigh fading channels. Numerical results demonstrate that SC performs slightly better in terms of outage probability; in terms of BEP, both systems may outperform one another, depending on the SNR threshold that determines the set of relays that participate in the forwarding process.