Performance Analysis of a Dual-Hop Relay With STBC-CIOD over Rayleigh Fading Channels

Author

Jungho Myung ; Hoojin Lee ; Joonhyuk Kang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

62

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

444

Abstract

In this paper, a symbol error rate (SER) study is presented for the dual-hop relay networks employing space-time block code (STBC) from coordinate interleaved orthogonal design (STBC-CIOD), where a relay with either a decode-and-forward (DF) or an amplify-and-forward (AF) protocol is equipped with multiple antennas. More specifically, we provide the union upper and lower bounds on the average SER by deriving an accurate closed-form formula for the corresponding symbol pairwise error rate (SPER). In addition, the asymptotic diversity order is analyzed. The theoretically derived bounds are in good agreement with the simulation results.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; amplify and forward communication; antennas; decode and forward communication; diversity reception; error statistics; relay networks (telecommunication); space-time block codes; AF protocol; DF protocol; Rayleigh fading channel; SER; SPER; STBC-CIOD; amplify-and-forward protocol; asymptotic diversity order; coordinate interleaved orthogonal design; decode-and-forward protocol; dual-hop relay network; multiple antennas; space-time block code; symbol pairwise error rate; Fading; Performance analysis; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Strontium; Transmitting antennas; Amplify-and-forward (AF); asymptotic diversity order; coordinate interleaved orthogonal design (CIOD); decode-and-forward (DF); dual-hop relay network; space–time block code (STBC); symbol error rate (SER);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2012.2216905

Filename

6293914