Opportunistic Multiple Relay Selection for Two-Way Relay Networks with Outdated Channel State Information

( Sijia Lou ),( Longxiang Yang ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2014 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.8 No.2

Outdated Channel State Information (CSI) was proved to have negative effect on performance in two-way relay networks. The diversity order of widely used opportunistic relay selection (ORS) was degraded to unity in networks with outdated CSI. This paper proposed a multiple relay selection scheme for amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relay networks (TWRN) with outdated CSI. In this scheme, two sources exchange information through more than one relays. We firstly select N best relays out of all candidate relays with respect to signal-noise ratio (SNR). Then, the ratios of the SNRs on the rest of the candidate relays to that of the Nth highest SNR are tested against a normalized threshold μ∈[0, 1], and only those relays passing this test are selected in addition to the N best relays. Expressions of outage probability, average bit error rate (BER) and ergodic channel capacity were obtained in closed-form for the proposed scheme. Numerical results and Simulations verified our theoretical analyses, and showed that the proposed scheme had significant gains comparing with conventional ORS.

Interference Alignment in Two-way Relay Channel with Compute-and-Forward

( Xue Jiang ),( Baoyu Zheng ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2016 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.10 No.2

This paper analyzes interference alignment in the two-way relay network with compute-and-forward in both single relay and multiple relays networks. The advantages of compute-and-forward over other relaying strategies are that it can relay only linear combinations of the useful signals and remove the noise. The algorithm proposed in this paper adopts the criterion of maximum SINR to derive the pre-coding matrix. The experimental results show that the performance of interference alignment in two-way relay channel via compute-and-forward is better than that of amplify-and-forward, and the total sum rate in the two-way multiple relay networks is larger than that in the two-way single relay networks.

Two-way 증폭과 전송 릴레이 네트워크의 용량 최적화

모하마드 아부 하니프,이문호,박주용,Hanif, Mohammad Abu,Lee, Moon Ho,Park, Ju Yong 대한전자공학회 2013 전자공학회논문지 Vol.50 No.9

본 논문에서는 two-way 릴레이 네트워크에서 파일롯(pilot)기반 채널 추정 기법과, 전송시 데이터 심볼과 함께 파일롯 심볼을 전송하는 기법을 제안한다. 채널상태정보(channel state information : CSI)가 없는 경우, destination은 파일롯 심볼을 사용해 채널을 추정한다. 이 시스템에서 릴레이는 파일롯 심볼과 데이터 심볼을 증폭하고 AF(amplify and forward)프로토콜을 사용하여 destination에 전송한다. 릴레이 이득이 고정되어 있어서 릴레이는 채널을 추정할 필요가 없기 때문에 destination이 채널을 추정한다. 이 채널 추정에는 이미 잘 알려진 LS(least-square)와 MMSE(minimum mean-square error)를 사용하였다. In this paper, we propose a pilot based channel estimation technique in two-way relay networks. We propose to transmit a pilot symbol together with the data symbol during transmission. In absence of Channel State Information (CSI), destination uses the pilot symbol to estimate the channel. In this system, the relay amplifies the pilot and the data symbol then forward them to the destination using amplify and forward (AF) protocol. We assume that the relay gain is fixed, so the relay does not need to estimate the channel, the destination only estimate the channel. We apply well-known Least-square (LS) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) channel estimation methods to estimate the channel.

Soft Network Coding in Wireless Two-Way Relay Channels

Zhang, Shengli,Zhu, Yu,Liew, Soung Chang The Korea Institute of Information and Commucation 2008 Journal of communications and networks Vol.10 No.4

Application of network coding in wireless two-way relay channels (TWRC) has received much attention recently because its ability to improve throughput significantly. In traditional designs, network coding operates at upper layers above (including) the link layer and it requires the input packets to be correctly decoded. However, this requirement may limit the performance and application of network coding due to the unavoidable fading and noise in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a new wireless network coding scheme for TWRC, which is referred to as soft network coding (SoftNC), where the relay nodes applies symbol-by-symbol soft decisions on the received signals from the two end nodes to come up with the network coded information to be forwarded. We do not assume further channel coding on top of SoftNC at the relay node (channel coding is assumed at the end nodes). According to measures of the soft information adopted, two kinds of SoftNC are proposed: amplify-and-forward SoftNC (AF-SoftNC) and soft-bit-forward SoftNC (SBF-SoftNC). We analyze the both the ergodic capacity and the outage capacity of the two SoftNC schemes. Specifically, analytical form approximations of the ergodic capacity and the outage capacity of the two schemes are given and validated. Numerical simulation shows that our SoftNC schemes can outperform the traditional network coding based two-way relay protocol, where channel decoding and re-encoding are used at the relay node. Notable is the fact that performance improvement is achieved using only simple symbol-level operations at the relay node.

적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신의 오수신 확률 분석

이진희(Jin-Hee Lee),공형윤(Hyung-Yun Kong) 한국전자파학회 2010 한국전자파학회논문지 Vol.21 No.4

본 논문에서는 사용자와 중계기 간의 채널 환경을 고려하여 동작하는 적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신을 제안하며, 오수신 확률을 분석한다. 네트워크 부호화를 이용한 양방향 중계기 통신은 기존의 통신보다 시간 슬롯을 줄여 높은 전송량을 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 양방향 중계기 통신은 중계기에서 수신 신호를 올바르게 복호한다는 가정을 하며, 만약 사용자와 중계기의 채널 환경이 열악한 경우에는 오류를 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 사용자 A가 사용자 B와 중계기 R에게 신호를 전송하며, 중계기는 복호 유무에 따라 유동적으로 동작하는 적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안한 적응형 양방향 중계기 협력 통신이 사용자와 중계기의 채널 환경이 열악한 경우 높은 성능을 얻으며, 또한 다이버시티 이득을 얻을 수 있음을 보인다. In this paper, we proposed adaptive two-way relay cooperative communication considering the quality of the user-relay links, and derived outage probability. Network-coding based two-way relay communication can achieve more throughput since it can reduce transmission time compared conventional two-way relay communication. However, Network-coding based two-way relay communication assume that the relay can decode received signal correctly. If relay cannot decode the signal, it leads to error propagation at the relay. In this paper, we proposed adaptive two-way relay cooperative communication scheme. In proposed scheme, the user "A" transmits the signal to relay and another user "B". The relay operates adaptively depend on quality of user-relay links. Simulation result show that proposed scheme has better performance when the quality of the user-relay links are poor. Also it can get diversity order 2.

A Simple N^th Best-Relay Selection Criterion for Opportunistic Two-Way Relay Networks under Outdated Channel State Information

( Jinglan Ou ),( Haowei Wu ),( Qi Wang ),( Yutao Zou ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2014 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.8 No.10

The frequency spectrum available for the wireless communication is extremely crowded. In order to improve the spectral efficiency, the two-way relay networks have aroused great attention. A simple N^th best-relay selection criterion for the opportunistic two-way relay networks is proposed, which can be implemented easily by extending the distributed timer technique in practice, since the proposed criterion is mainly based on the channel gains. The outage performance of the proposed relay selection scheme is analyzed under the outdated channel state information (CSI), and a tight closed-form lower bound and asymptotic value of the outage probability over Rayleigh fading channels are obtained. Simulation results demonstrate that the tight closed-form lower bound of the outage probability very closely matches with simulated ones in the whole SNR region, and the asymptotic results provide good tight approximations to the simulation ones, especially in the high SNR region.

Individual Channel Estimation Based on Blind Interference Cancellation for Two-Way MIMO Relay Networks

( Xianwen He ),( Gaoqi Dou ),( Jun Gao ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2018 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.12 No.8

In this paper, we investigate an individual channel estimation problem for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) two-way amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks. To avoid self-interference during the estimation of the individual MIMO channels, a novel blind interference cancellation (BIC) approach is proposed based on an orthogonal preceding framework, where a pair of orthogonal precoding matrices is utilized at the source nodes. By designing an optimal decoding scheme, we propose to decompose the bidirectional transmission into a pair of unidirectional transmissions. Unlike most existing approaches, we make the practical assumption that the nonreciprocal MIMO channel and the mutual interference of multiple antennas are both taken into consideration. Under the precoding framework, we employ an orthogonal superimposed training strategy to obtain the individual MIMO channels. However, the AF strategy causes the noise at the terminal to be the sum of the local noise and the relay-propagated noise. To remove the relay-propagated noise during the estimation of the second-hop channel, a partial noise-nulling method is designed. We also derive a closed-form expression for the total mean square error (MSE) of the MIMO channel from which we compute the optimal power allocation. The simulation results demonstrate that the analytical and simulated curves match fully.

Two - way 증폭과 전송 릴레이 네트워크의 용량 최적화

모하마드 아부 하니프(Mohammad Abu Hanif),이문호(Moon Ho Lee),박주용(Ju Yong Park) 대한전자공학회 2013 전자공학회논문지 Vol.50 No.1

본 논문에서는 two-way 릴레이 네트워크에서 파일롯(pilot)기반 채널 추정 기법과, 전송시 데이터 심볼과 함께 파일롯 심볼을 전송하는 기법을 제안한다. 채널상태정보(channel state information : CSI)가 없는 경우, destination은 파일롯 심볼을 사용해 채널을 추정한다. 이 시스템에서 릴레이는 파일롯 심볼과 데이터 심볼을 증폭하고 AF(amplify and forward)프로토콜을 사용하여 destination에 전송한다. 릴레이 이득이 고정되어 있어서 릴레이는 채널을 추정할 필요가 없기 때문에 destination이 채널을 추정한다. 이 채널 추정에는 이미 잘 알려진 LS(least-square)와 MMSE(minimum mean-square error)를 사용하였다. In this paper, we propose a pilot based channel estimation technique in two-way relay networks. We propose to transmit a pilot symbol together with the data symbol during transmission. In absence of Channel State Information (CSI), destination uses the pilot symbol to estimate the channel. In this system, the relay amplifies the pilot and the data symbol then forward them to the destination using amplify and forward (AF) protocol. We assume that the relay gain is fixed, so the relay does not need to estimate the channel, the destination only estimate the channel. We apply well-known Least-square (LS) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) channel estimation methods to estimate the channel.

Soft Network Coding in Wireless Two-Way Relay Channels

Shengli Zhang,Yu Zhu,Soung Chang Liew 한국통신학회 2008 Journal of communications and networks Vol.10 No.4

Application of network coding in wireless Two-Way Relay Channels (TWRC) has received much attention recently because its ability to improve throughput significantly. In traditional designs, network coding operates at upper layers above (including) the link layer and it requires the input packets to be correctly decoded. However, this requirement may limit the performance and application of network coding due to the unavoidable fading and noise in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a new wireless network coding scheme for TWRC, which is referred to as soft network coding (SoftNC), where the relay nodes applies symbol-by-symbol soft decisions on the received signals from the two end nodes to come up with the network coded information to be forwarded. We do not assume further channel coding on top of SoftNC at the relay node (channel coding is assumed at the end nodes). According to measures of the soft information adopted, two kinds of SoftNC are proposed: amplify-and-forward SoftNC (AFSoftNC) and soft-bit-forward SoftNC (SBF-SoftNC). We analyze the both the ergodic capacity and the outage capacity of the two SoftNC schemes. Specifically, analytical form approximations of the ergodic capacity and the outage capacity of the two schemes are given and validated. Numerical simulation shows that our SoftNC schemes can outperform the traditional network coding based twoway relay protocol, where channel decoding and re-encoding are used at the relay node. Notable is the fact that performance improvement is achieved using only simple symbol-level operations at the relay node.

Performance Optimization of Two-Way AF Relaying in Asymmetric Fading Channels

( Qi Yanyan ),( Wang Xiaoxiang ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2014 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.8 No.12

It is widely observed that in practical wireless cooperative communication systems, different links may experience different fading characteristics. In this paper, we investigate into the outage probability and channel capacity of two-way amplify-and-forward (TWAF) relaying systems operating over a mixed asymmetric Rician and Rayleigh fading scenario, with different amplification policies (AP) adopted at the relay, respectively. As TWAF relay network carries concurrent traffics towards two opposite directions, both end-to-end and overall performance metrics were considered. In detail, both uniform exact expressions and simplified asymptotic expressions for the end-to-end outage probability (OP) were presented, based on which the system overall OP was studied under the condition of the two source nodes having non-identical traffic requirements. Furthermore, exact expressions for tight lower bounds as well as high SNR approximations of channel capacity of the considered scenario were presented. For both OP and channel capacity, with different APs, effective power allocation (PA) schemes under different constraints were given to optimize the system performance. Extensive simulations were carried out to verify the analytical results and to demonstrate the impact of channel asymmetry on the system performance.