On the Error Rate Performance and Asymptotic Diversity Order of Multi-Hop Two-Antenna Decode-and-Forward Relay Systems 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. (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Jun-13

Firstpage

1077

Lastpage

1080

Abstract

In this letter, we analyze a symbol error rate (SER) of the multi-hop relay network employing space-time block code from coordinate interleaved orthogonal design (STBC-CIOD), where a source, a destination, and multiple relays with decode-and-forward (DF) protocol are equipped with two antennas. Especially, the union upper and lower bounds on the average SER and the asymptotic diversity order are provided by deriving an accurate closed-form formula for the corresponding symbol pairwise error rate (SPER). We demonstrate that the theoretically derived bounds are in good agreement with the simulation results.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; access protocols; antenna arrays; decode and forward communication; diversity reception; relay networks (telecommunication); space-time block codes; Rayleigh fading channels; SER; SPER; STBC-CIOD; asymptotic diversity order; coordinate interleaved orthogonal design; decode-and-forward protocol; decode-and-forward relay systems; multihop relay network; multihop two-antenna systems; space-time block code; symbol error rate; symbol pairwise error rate; Error analysis; Fading; Phase shift keying; Relay networks (telecommunications); Signal to noise ratio; Spread spectrum communication; Space-time block code (STBC); asymptotic diversity order; coordinate interleaved orthogonal design (CIOD); decode-and-forward (DF); multi-hop relay network; symbol error rate (SER);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2013.050313.130511

Filename

6515494