Performance evaluation of MIMO satellite multiple-relay multi-user fading channels

Author

Fassoi, Styliani ; Michailidis, Emmanouel T. ; Kanatas, Athanasios G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Digital Syst., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, a novel transmitting scheme for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) satellite relay-based multi-user multi-beam communications is proposed. It is considered that multiple terrestrial relay nodes employ amplify-and-forward (A-F) relaying and intend to improve the reliability and spectral efficiency of satellite radio links. Zero forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) signal detection techniques are employed, which have been well-established in terrestrial wireless communication systems. Numerical results are provided to quantify the performance gain of the proposed system configuration in terms of the bit-error-rate (BER) and the channel capacity.

Keywords

MIMO communication; amplify and forward communication; channel capacity; fading channels; multiuser channels; relay networks (telecommunication); satellite communication; telecommunication network reliability; MIMO satellite; amplify and forward relaying; channel capacity; minimum mean square error signal detection; multiple relay fading channels; multiple-input multiple-output satellite; multiuser fading channels; performance evaluation; radio link reliability; radio link spectral efficiency; zero forcing signal detection; MIMO; Receivers; Relays; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Wireless communication; MIMO; multi-beam; multi-hop; multi-user; relay; satellite communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228973