Beamforming in Dual-Hop Fixed Gain Relay Systems with Antenna Correlation

Author

Suraweera, Himal A. ; Garg, Hari Krishna ; Nallanathan, A.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

23-27 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The impact of antenna correlation on the performance of beamforming in a dual-hop fixed gain amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network is analyzed. The source and destination nodes are equipped with multiple antennas correlated in space, whereas the relay has a single antenna. Closed-form expressions for the system´s outage probability and the average bit error rate (BER) are derived. We have also presented simple asymptotic outage probability and average BER expressions. When the second link is much stronger than the first link, it is shown that the system´s performance at high SNR is only governed by the spatial correlation and number of antennas at the source and the diversity order is equal to the number of antennas at the source. Our analytical results have been verified through comparison with Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

antennas; beam steering; error statistics; probability; radio networks; antenna correlation; asymptotic outage probability; average bit error rate; beamforming; dual-hop fixed gain amplify-and-forward relay network; dual-hop fixed gain relay system; system outage probability; Array signal processing; Bit error rate; Directive antennas; Diversity reception; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Power system relaying; Relays; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6402-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2010.5502772

Filename

5502772