Multi-Hop Relay Networks with Multiple-Antenna Equipped Source and Destination

Author

Amarasuriya, Gayan ; Tellambura, Chintha ; Ardakani, Masoud

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The performance of a multi-hop amplify-and-forward relay network is analyzed. The source and destination terminals are equipped with multiple-antennas and the relays with single-antennas. The cumulative distribution function and the moment generating function of two tight upper bounds of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio are derived. The lower bounds for the outage probability and the average symbol error rate (SER) are also derived. The results take into account the source-relay and the relay-destination correlation matrices; the uncorrelated case is treated as well. The asymptotic outage probability, average SER, diversity order and coding gain are also derived. Numerical results and Monte-Carlo simulations are presented to analyze the system performance and show the tightness of the proposed bounds.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Monte Carlo methods; antenna arrays; diversity reception; error statistics; Monte Carlo simulations; SER; coding gain; diversity; end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio; multihop amplify-and- forward relay network; multiple antenna; outage probability; relay destination; single antennas; source relay; symbol error rate; Antennas; Bit error rate; Correlation; Fading; Neodymium; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3573-9

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594284

Filename

5594284