BER Analysis of Space Shift Keying in Cooperative Multi-Hop Multi-Branch DF Relaying

Author

Som, Pritam ; Chockalingam, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECE, Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Space shift keying (SSK) is an attractive modulation technique for multi-antenna communications. In SSK, only one among the available transmit antennas is activated during one channel use, and the index of the chosen transmit antenna conveys information. In this paper, we analyze the performance of SSK in multi-hop, multi-branch cooperative relaying systems. We consider the decode-and-forward relaying protocol, where a relay forwards the decoded symbol if it decodes the symbol correctly from the received signal. We derive closed-form expressions for the end-to-end bit error rate of SSK in this system. Analytical and simulation results match very well.

Keywords

access protocols; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; decoding; error statistics; relay networks (telecommunication); transmitting antennas; BER analysis; SSK; attractive modulation; bit error rate; cooperative multihop multibranch relaying; cooperative relaying systems; decode-and-forward relaying protocol; decoded symbol; multiantenna communications; received signal; space shift keying; transmit antenna; Analytical models; Bit error rate; Modulation; Receiving antennas; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2013 IEEE 78th

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692116

Filename

6692116