In this paper, spatial channel pairing(SCP) is introduced to coherent combining at the relay in relay networks. Closed-form solution to optimal coherent combining is derived. Given coherent combining, the approximate ...In this paper, spatial channel pairing(SCP) is introduced to coherent combining at the relay in relay networks. Closed-form solution to optimal coherent combining is derived. Given coherent combining, the approximate SCP solution is presented. Finally, an alternating iterative structure is developed. Simulation results and analysis show that, given the symbol error rate and data rate, the proposed alternating iterative structure achieves signal-to-noise ratio gains over existing schemes in maximum ratio combining(MRC) plus matched filter,MRC plus antenna selection, and distributed space-time block coding due to the use of SCP and iterative structure.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University,China(No.2013D02)the Open Research Fund of National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment,China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation(No.201500013)+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61271230,61472190,and 61501238)the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20113219120019)the Foundation of Cloud Computing and Big Data for Agriculture and Forestry,China(No.117-612014063)
文摘In this paper, spatial channel pairing(SCP) is introduced to coherent combining at the relay in relay networks. Closed-form solution to optimal coherent combining is derived. Given coherent combining, the approximate SCP solution is presented. Finally, an alternating iterative structure is developed. Simulation results and analysis show that, given the symbol error rate and data rate, the proposed alternating iterative structure achieves signal-to-noise ratio gains over existing schemes in maximum ratio combining(MRC) plus matched filter,MRC plus antenna selection, and distributed space-time block coding due to the use of SCP and iterative structure.