同信道干扰条件下的多天线放大转发中继中断概率分析

该文研究了基于波束形成技术的双跳多输入多输出(MIMO)放大转发(AF)中继系统的中断概率,该系统在发射端、中继端和接收端都配置了多根天线。假设每条链路的发射端采用最大比传输(MRT)技术,接收端采用最大合并比(MRC)技术,该文得出了中继端受到同信道干扰时的信干噪比(SINR),推导了基于固定增益中继方案的中断概率(OP)闭合表达式。计算机仿真结果不仅验证了性能分析的有效性,而且还分析了关键参数对系统性能的影响以及配置多天线带来的好处。     

协作通信技术在恶劣信道条件下的应用研究

为了在信道状况较差时仍能采用编码协作技术,提出了一种有效混合编码协作方法.以两用户为例,在两次发送时隙都采用QPSK调制,并采用LDPC码的混合自动重传(HARQ)方法,当第一时隙传输数据不能被正确译码时,源节点将重新传送数据,中继节点将接收到的数据联合上一次接收的数据进行联合译码.当数据重传后仍不能被正确译码时,中继节点将采用放大转发方式传输第二时隙的数据,此时转为放大转发模式进行协同通信,通过性能分析和仿真结果表明,当协作用户间信道状况较差时,与非协作和普通编码协作方式相比,所提的协作方法仍能获得一定的分集增益.     

具有大规模天线选择与功率分配的协作通信

在瑞利衰落信道下研究了采用前向译码转发协议的三节点协作模型,分析了中继分布大规模天线阵列时系统的可靠性能。为了有效地降低系统复杂度,同时又能获得大规模天线带来的分集增益,给出了中继选择合并(SC)与天线选择空间调制(SM)相结合的组合传输方案。为了进一步提高可靠性能,研究了SC/SM组合方案如何通过功率分配优化其误比特率性能。仿真分析表明,大规模中继SC/SM方案的功率分配能够有效改善系统的误比特率性能。     

结合模拟网络编码技术的选择式中继转发机制

针对时分半双工的单向传输中继协同系统,提出一种结合模拟网络编码(ANC,analog net-work coding)技术的选择式中继转发机制,中继站根据其对当前帧及上一帧发端数据的循环冗余校验结果,在四种可选方案中自适应切换转发策略,既避免误码传播,又保证分集增益最大化。ANC以符号级线性叠加为基本形式,同时引入星座旋转,使进行ANC的两帧数据功率均等且保持完全的区分度。接收机采用自适应的线性检测算法,以最低的解码复杂度有效去除帧间干扰。理论分析及仿真结果表明,同选择式解码转发机制相比,结合ANC的选择式中继转发机制在误块率及吞吐量性能上均具有显著优势,且发端至中继站间链路质量越好,优势越明显。     

天线选择策略在MIMO中继系统中的应用及改进

为了降低MIMO系统的射频链路成本同时保证其性能增益,该文在两跳MIMO中继系统中分析了理想和几种优化的天线选择策略,并分别在放大转发和译码转发两种中继方式下得出了系统中断概率表达式。最后,通过对不同天线选择策略下系统中断概率的数值仿真对比其系统性能,得出了适用于实际通信系统的低复杂度的最佳策略。     

非正交选择译码转发协同

为了提高两跳中继网络的传输速率和协同分集增益,该文提出一种非正交的选择译码转发策略传输数据。单节点协同时,协同节点仅在正确译码时采用和发送节点非正交的时序转发;在多节点协同时,采用一种节点选择算法选择译码正确且信道条件最佳的节点用于非正交转发。这种协同策略可获得和非正交放大转发相同的分集复用折衷性能,但其实现更简单,且在低信噪比时中断性能更好。     

Nakagami信道下MIMO解码转发中继系统的安全性能分析

在协同自适应解码转发中继系统中,该文针对Nakagami-m衰落信道,研究了基于多天线低复杂度的机会式传输策略的物理层安全性能。为充分利用天线分集增益提升系统安全性能,发送节点均采用发送天线选择策略,接收节点均采用最大比合并策略。推导了系统安全中断概率的闭合表达式,并进一步提供了渐近性能分析,得到了系统的安全分集阶数。仿真结果验证了理论分析的正确性,并揭示了各系统参数对机会式传输方案的安全性能的影响。结果表明,通过增加合法节点的天线数和增大合法信道的Nakagami衰落信道参数可显著提升系统安全性能。     

基于信道状态和剩余能量的动态多中继选择

为了优化译码转发(DF)协同通信系统的网络生存时间,提出一种基于信道状态信息(CSI)和剩余能量信息(REI)的动态多中继选择算法,该算法根据信道-能量函数和信道容量增益门限选择协同中继节点。仿真结果表明,对中继功率进行动态分配时,该算法选择四个中继可使系统性能达到最优。当中继节点数为4时,与仅基于CSI的中继选择算法相比,该算法能延长网络生存时间最高达75%。     

基于矩生成函数的协同中继传输误符号率性能分析

多中继协同分集技术在慢衰落无线环境下可以提供巨大的性能增益。该文从接收端平均误符号率的角度,分析了独立的瑞利衰落信道下,采用放大转发的多中继协同最大比合并检测方案和多节点侦听,单中继转发的机会中继方案的性能;并基于矩生成函数推导出两种方案下M-PSK和M-QAM调制信号平均误符号率的闭合表达式。经蒙特卡罗仿真验证,该表达式在中高信噪比下与仿真的实际结果非常吻合。同时也可以看出机会中继的分集增益与协同侦听的节点数成正比,误符号率性能优于使用最大比合并检测的多中继协同方案。     

直达链路下的全双工能量采集中继系统的吞吐量分析

针对三节点传输系统,研究了基于时间切换能量采集的全双工放大转发协作中继方案。考虑源和目的地之间存在直达链路,全双工中继节点采用天线选择技术以最小化中继自干扰,目的节点采用最大比合并技术以最大化目的地接收信噪比。在延迟受限传输模式下,推出了自干扰信道增益为常数时系统吞吐量近似闭合表达式。运用最佳目的地选择策略和自适应中继选择策略讨论了系统吞吐量性能。如图4所示,在源发送功率为30 dB时,就系统吞吐量而言,本文算法比其他两种算法分别提高了0.22 bits/s/Hz和0.68 bits/s/Hz。数值分析和蒙特卡洛仿真表明,增加中继个数,增加目的地个数或者增大能量采集效率均能够提升系统吞吐量性能。      

Effects of threshold based relay selection algorithms on the performance of an IEEE 802.16j mobile multi-hop relay (MMR) WiMAX network

IEEE 802.16j MMR WiMAX network introduces multi-hop relay architecture, which involves cooperative relay stations focusing on increasing the network throughput and coverage. Relay selection algorithms can be used to choose the optimal relay, which help in reducing the computational complexity during the signal processing operation of the wireless network. In this research work, a conventional Amplify-Forward (AF)/Decode-Forward (DF) assisted multi-relay IEEE 802.16j WiMAX network is considered. The effects of relay selection algorithms on the performance metrics such as Symbol Error Rate (SER) and channel capacity are investigated in detail through simulation-based study. Further, the performance of this network utilizing the proposed relay selection algorithms, namely threshold based max_min and threshold based harmonic mean of SNR, are compared with the existing max_min and harmonic mean of SNR based algorithms. Standard diversity combining techniques such as Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) and Selection Combining (SC) are used for combining the transmitted signal at the receiver. In addition, the impact of relay locations on the performance metrics are explored. It is observed that both the proposed threshold based max_min and threshold based harmonic mean of SNR based relay selection algorithms outperform the max_min and harmonic mean of SNR based algorithms, as both the SER and channel capacity for the considered multi-relay WiMAX network is improved significantly. Further, this extensive study and analysis will be beneficial for the design of MMR WiMAX networks.     

Optimal relay functionality for SNR maximization in memoryless relay networks

We explore the SNR-optimal relay functionality in a mernoryless relay network, i.e. a network where, during each channel use, the signal transmitted by a relay depends only on the last received symbol at that relay. We develop a generalized notion of SNR for the class of memoryless relay functions. The solution to the generalized SNR optimization problem leads to the novel concept of minimum mean squared uncorrelated error (MMSUE) estimation. For the elemental case of a single relay, we show that MMSUE estimate is a scaled version of the MMSE estimate. This scheme, that we call estimate and forward (EF), performs better than the best of amplify and forward (AF) and demodulate and forward (DF) in both parallel and serial relay networks. We determine that AF is near-optimal at low transmit power in a parallel network, while DF is near-optimal at high transmit power in a serial network. For hybrid networks that contain both serial and parallel elements, the advantage of EF over the best of AF and DF is found to be significant. Error probabilities are provided to substantiate the performance gain obtained through SNR optimality. We also show that, for Gaussian inputs, AF, DF and EF are identical     

Exact analysis of the multihop multibranch hybrid AF/DF relaying networks

In this paper, the exact analysis of a multihop multibranch (MHMB) relaying network is investigated wherein each relay can operate in amplify‐and‐forward (AF) or decode‐and‐forward (DF) modes depending upon the decoding result of its received signal. If a relay decodes the received signal correctly, it works in DF mode; otherwise, the relay operates in AF mode. Therefore, we name such relaying network as hybrid amplify‐and‐forward and decode‐and‐forward (hybrid AF/DF) relaying network. We first investigate the signal transmission from source to destination node via n number of relays in a hybrid AF/DF MHMB mode. Then, we obtained the statistical features and analyze the end‐to‐end signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR). Finally, a comprehensive performance analysis is conducted by using maximal ratio combining (MRC) scheme at the destination node. For comparison, we also obtained the results using selection combining (SC) scheme at the destination node. To the best of our knowledge, very few works in the literature have considered a general system model of MHMB relaying network wherein each relay can operate in AF or DF modes, that is, a hybrid AF/DF relaying network. Accordingly, the analysis of our system model is not only novel and exact, but also is comprehensive and can be employed in the future works.     

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.     

Distributed space-time coding scheme with differential detection and power allocation for cooperative relay network

By introducing orthogonal space-time coding (STC) scheme in wireless cooperative relay network, two distributed differential STC (DSTC) schemes based on the amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and- forward (DF) methods are, respectively, developed. The scheme performance is investigated in symmetric and asymmetric wireless relay networks. The presented schemes require no channel information at both relay terminals and destination terminal, and have linear decoding complexity when compared with the existing scheme. Moreover, they are suitable for the application of different constellation modulations and DSTC schemes, and thus provide more freedoms of design. Besides, the power allocations between source and relay terminals are jointly optimized to minimize the system pairwise error probability for symmetric and asymmetric networks, and two practical methods are presented to solve the complicated optimized problem from asymmetric network. Simulation results show that the scheme with DF method has better performance than that with AF method due to no amplification of noise power, but the performance superiority will decrease at high SNR due to the error propagation of decoding at the relays. Furthermore, the distributed DSTC schemes with optimal power allocation have better performance than those with conventional fixed power allocation.     

Cooperative quadrature physical layer network coding in wireless relay networks

This paper proposes a cooperative quadrature physical layer network coding (CQPNC) scheme for a dual‐hop cooperative relay network, which consists of two source nodes, one relay node and one destination node. All nodes in the network have one antenna, and the two source nodes transmit their signals modulated with quadrature carriers. In this paper, a cooperative quadrature physical layer network coded decode‐and‐forward (DF) relay protocol (CQPNC‐DF) is proposed to transmit the composite information from the two source nodes via the relay node to the destination node simultaneously to reduce the number of time slots required for a transmission. The proposed CQPNC‐DF relay protocol is compared with time‐division multiple‐access amplify‐and‐forward (TDMA‐AF), TDMA‐DF, cooperative network coded DF (CNC‐DF) and cooperative analog network coded AF (CANC‐AF) relay protocols to demonstrate its effectiveness in terms of bit error rate (BER) and system throughput under different propagation conditions. The simulation results reveal that the proposed CQPNC‐DF relay protocol can significantly improve the network performance. Compared with two TDMA schemes and CNC‐DF, the proposal can provide up to 100% and 50% throughput gains, respectively. Moreover, no matter what the scene, the proposed scheme always has the lowest BER in the low SNR region. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

混合中继转发机制下的资源分配

在基于放大转发( AF)和译码转发( DF)的混合中继转发机制模型下,为了使系统获得最大和速率,提出了相应的资源分配方案,在子载波对混合中继协议的判断选择和最优功率分配算法的基础上讨论了等效信道增益模型和非等效信道增益模型。在非等效信道增益模型中,为了降低计算复杂度提出了一种次优算法。在该机制模型下,系统自适应地选择AF或者DF转发,既克服了两种单一转发模式存在的弊端,又能获得更大的和速率,从而提高了资源利用率。仿真结果表明,当系统功率等因素变化时,该分配方案下的混合中继转发模型与传统的AF和DF模型相比系统和速率分别提高了60%和8%以上,充分说明了该系统的优越性。     

同信道干扰下的中继网络性能分析

分析了两跳中继网络在同信道干扰下的中断概率。在中继网络中,源节点广播信号至所有的中继节点,此时同信道干扰在中继节点或者目的节点处被引入。中继节点采用解码转发策略转发源节点的信号,而目的节点采用最大比合并技术接收来自中继节点的信号。最终推导了各种干扰情形下系统中断概率的闭合表达式。仿真结果表明,解析曲线和蒙特卡洛仿真曲线非常吻合,而同信道干扰在某些场合会对系统性能造成较大影响。分析结果对中继网络的系统设计和参数设置都有一定的参考意义。     

分组协同中继系统性能研究以及分组长度性能影响分析

针对AF(amplify-and-forward)和DF(decode-and-forward)2种转发模式,分析了分组协同中继通信系统在高信噪比下的误帧率性能,并研究了帧长对误帧率的影响。研究表明,以误帧率为准则,AF和DF模式都取得了相同的分集增益,但是编码增益不一样,并且编码增益与帧长有关。与现有的研究结论不一样,考虑到实际的分组长度,DF总是能够获得较AF更好的性能,帧越短DF的优势越明显;当帧长足够大时AF能够获得和DF相近的性能。还研究了最优的中继位置,对于AF系统,最优的中继位置总是位于源和目的节点中点处;而对于DF系统,当帧长增大时最优的中继位置将从靠近源处逐渐移至中点处。     

The TR-UWB receiver based on spatial diversity

This paper presents a new Transmitted Reference (TR) Ultra-WideBand (UWB) receiver based on Spatial Diversity (SD), which employs Multi-Antenna Technology (MAT) to improve the performance of TR-UWB receiver. According to the amplitude of correlator output of every antenna branch, this paper analyzed the performances of the proposed TR-UWB receiver employing three different kinds of combina-tion strategies, i.e., Maximum Ratio Combination (MRC), Equal Gain Combination (EGC), and Selective Combination (SC), which are different from conventional ones, and theoretically proved that the performance of EGC is better than MRC. Simulation results verify that when EGC is adopted and BER=10–3, increasing three antennas provides Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) gain of about 3 dB in CM4 channel and SNR gain of about 2 dB in CM2 channel.