Effect of Feedback Delay on Downlink Amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Beamforming

Author

Suraweera, Himal A. ; Tsiftsis, Theodoros A. ; Karagiannidis, George K. ; Faulkner, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In relay networks, partial channel state information at the transmitter due to feedback delay can severely degrade the beamforming performance. In this paper, the decremental effect of transmit beamforming with feedback delay on the downlink performance of a two hop Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay network over Rayleigh fading channels is investigated. The source is equipped with multiple antennas while the relay and the destination has a single antenna. We have derived closed-form expressions for the outage probability, probability density function of the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination and the average bit error rate (BER). To gain further insights, outage probability and average BER approximations at high SNR are also presented. Numerical results supported by simulations are provided to illustrate the decremental effects feedback delay on the performance of the considered AF relay system.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; array signal processing; delays; error statistics; radio repeaters; radio transmitters; Rayleigh fading channels; bit error rate; downlink amplify-and-forward relaying; feedback delay; outage probability; partial channel state information; probability density function; relay networks; signal-to-noise ratio; transmit beamforming; Array signal processing; Bit error rate; Channel state information; Degradation; Delay effects; Downlink; Fading; Relays; State feedback; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2009. GLOBECOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4148-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5426305

Filename

5426305