Transmission Strategies for Multiple Antenna Wireless Ad-hoc and Relay Networks

Transmission Strategies for Multiple Antenna Wireless Ad-hoc and Relay Networks
Author: Rahul Vaze
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2009
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Wireless devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Cell-phones, PDA's, Wi-Fi enabled laptops, smart homes and appliances, and automated highway systems are some of the examples of wireless devices and networks in common use. More and more applications and functionalities are constantly being added to these devices, and to support these new applications high data rate communication is required between the wireless devices. Achieving high data rates with wireless communication is impeded by severe fluctuations in the received signal strength (called fading) due to mobility, the exponential attenuation of signal power with distance (called path loss), and interference due to simultaneous transmissions by different users at the same time or over same frequency band. Two of the promising techniques to mitigate the effects of fading, path loss, and interference are: using multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver, and employing extra nodes (called relays) in between the transmitter and its receiver to relay the transmitter's message to its receiver. This dissertation identifies the optimal transmit and receive strategy with multiple antennas that maximizes the transmission capacity of an ad-hoc wireless network. The transmission capacity is defined as the maximum number of transmitter-receiver pairs that can simultaneously communicate under a per transmission quality of service constraint. This dissertation also presents novel relay transmission strategies for multiple antenna equipped relay based communication that achieve near optimal performance, with Shannon capacity and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) as the performance metrics. The Shannon capacity is defined as the maximum rate of reliable communication, while the DMT characterizes the maximum diversity gain for a given value of multiplexing gain in a multiple antenna system. DMT is used as the benchmark, since transmission strategies that meet the DMT are guaranteed to leverage both the advantages of multiple antenna systems.

Transmission Strategies for Wireless Multiple-antenna Relay-assisted Networks

Transmission Strategies for Wireless Multiple-antenna Relay-assisted Networks
Author: Kien Trung Truong
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Total Pages: 432
Release: 2012
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Global mobile data traffic has more than doubled in the past four years, and will only increase throughout the upcoming years. Modern cellular systems are striving to enable communications at high data rates over wide geographical areas to meet the surge in data demand. This requires advanced technologies to mitigate fundamental effects of wireless communications like path-loss, shadowing, small-scale fading, and interference. Two of such technologies are: i) deploying multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver, and ii) employing an extra radio, called the relay, to forward messages from the transmitter to the receiver. The advantages of both technologies can be leveraged by using multiple antennas at the relay, transmitter, and receiver. Multiple-antenna relay-assisted communication is emerging as one promising technique for expanding the overall capacity of cellular networks. Taking full advantage of multiple-antenna relay-assisted cellular systems requires transmission strategies for jointly configuring the transmitters and receivers based on knowledge of the wireless propagation medium. This dissertation proposes such transmission strategies for wireless multiple-antenna relay-assisted systems. Two popular types of relays are considered: i) amplify-and-forward relays (the relays simply apply linear signal processing to their observed signals before retransmitting) and ii) decode-and-forward relays (the relays decode their observed signals and then re-encode before retransmitting). The first part of this dissertation considers the three-node multiple-antenna amplify-and-forward relay channel. Algorithms for adaptively selecting the number of data streams and subsets of transmit antennas at the transmitter and relay to provide reliable transmission at a guaranteed rate are proposed. Expressions for extracting spatial characteristics of the end-to-end multiple-antenna relay channel are derived. The second part of the dissertation presents interference management strategies that are developed specifically for two models of multiple-antenna relay interference channels where a number of relays assist multiple transmitters to communicate with multiple receivers. One model uses amplify-and-forward relays while the other uses decode-and-forward relays. Based on the idea of interference alignment, these strategies aim at maximizing the sum of achievable end-to-end rates. Simulation results show that the proposed transmission strategies with multiple-antenna relays achieve higher capacity and reliability than both those without relays and those with single-antenna relays.

Design and Analysis of New Wireless Transmission Strategies for Cooperative Relay Networks

Design and Analysis of New Wireless Transmission Strategies for Cooperative Relay Networks
Author: Gayan Lasintha Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge
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Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013
Genre: Antennas (Electronics)
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Cooperative relay technologies are currently being researched to address the ever-increasing demand for higher data rates, extended coverage, greater mobility, and enhanced reliability. This thesis thus focuses on (1) developing new physical-layer wireless technologies for cooperative relay networks and (2) ascertaining their viability through performance analysis. Specifically, (i) new system and channel models, (ii) signaling and relay-processing algorithms, (iii) joint relay-antenna selection strategies, (iv) joint transmit-receive beamforming techniques, and (v) comprehensive performance analysis frameworks are developed for one-way, two-way, and multi-way cooperative relay networks. Our first research focuses on developing a comprehensive analytical framework for deriving closed-form performance bounds of multi-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks. Specifically, mathematically-tractable, asymptotically-exact end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio bounds are first formulated, and thereby, the outage probability and average bit error rate bounds are derived. In our second work, adaptive multiple-relay selection strategies are designed and analyzed for multi-relay AF networks to optimize the tradeoffs among the system performance, complexity, and wireless resource usage. Our third research investigates joint antenna and relay selection strategies, which are optimal in the sense of the achievable diversity gains, for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) one-way relay networks and MIMO two-way relay networks. Finally, joint transmit/receive zero forcing transmission strategies are developed for MIMO multi-way relay networks for optimizing the achievable diversity-multiplexing trade-off. The key design criterion of the aforementioned transmission designs is to leverage spatial diversity and/or spatial multiplexing gains available among distributed single-antenna and/or multiple-antenna wireless terminals through distributed transmission and efficient signal processing. Moreover, the fundamental relationships among the data rate, coverage, and reliability metrics are characterized, and thereby, the detrimental impact of practical wireless transmission impairments on the performance of the aforementioned transmission strategies are quantified. The insights obtained through these analyses are then used to refine our physical-layer designs to achieve desirable trade-offs between the system performance, resource usage and implementation complexity.

On the Optimal Transmission Strategies for Sources Without Channel State Information

On the Optimal Transmission Strategies for Sources Without Channel State Information
Author: Vahid Pourahmadi
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Total Pages: 123
Release: 2011
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With the growth of multimedia services, it is essential to find new transmission schemes to support higher data rates in wireless networks. In this thesis, we study networks in which the Channel State Information (CSI) is only available at the destination. We focus on the analysis of three different network setups. For each case, we propose a transmission scheme which maximizes the average performance of the network. The first scenario, which is studied in Chapter 2, is a multi-hop network in which the channel gain of each hop changes quasi-statically from one transmission block to the other. Our main motivation to study this network is the recent advances in deployment of relay nodes in wireless networks (e.g., LTE-A and IEEE 802.16j). In this setup, we assume that all nodes are equipped with a single antenna and the relay nodes are not capable of data buffering over multiple transmission blocks. The proposed transmission scheme is based on infinite-layer coding at all nodes (the source and all relays) in conjunction with the Decode-and-Forward DF relaying. The objective is to maximize the statistical average of the received rate per channel use at the destination. To find the optimal parameters of this code, we first formulate the problem for a two-hop scenario and describe the code design algorithm for this two-hop setting. The optimality of infinite-layer DF coding is also discussed for the case of two-hop networks. The result is then generalized to multi-hop scenarios. To show the superiority of the proposed scheme, we also evaluate the achievable average received rate of infinite-layer DF coding and compare it with the performance of previously known schemes. The second scenario, studied in Chapter 3, is a single-hop network in which both nodes are equipped with multiple antennas, while the channel gain changes quasi-statically and the CSI is not available at the source. The main reason for selecting this network setup is to study the transmission of video signals (compressed using a scalable video coding technique, e.g., SVC H.264/AVC) over a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) link. In this setup, although scalable video coding techniques compress the video signal into layers with different importance (for video reconstruction), the source cannot adapt the number of transmitted layers to the capacity of the channel (since it does not have the CSI in each time slot). An alternative approach is to always transmit all layers of the compressed video signal, but use unequal error protection for different layers. With this motivation, we focus on the design of multilayer codes for a MIMO link in which the destination is only able to perform successive decoding (not joint-decoding). In this chapter, we introduce a design rule for construction of multilayer codes for MIMO systems. We also propose a algorithm that uses this design rule to determine the parameters of the multilayer code. The performance analysis of the proposed scheme is also discussed in this chapter. In the two previous scenarios, the ambiguity of the source regarding the channel state comes from the fact that the channel gains randomly change in each transmission block and there is no feedback to notify the source about the current state of the channel. Apart from these, there are some scenarios in which the channel state is unknown at the source, even though the channel gain is fixed and the source knows its value.

Coordinated Wireless Multiple Antenna Networks

Coordinated Wireless Multiple Antenna Networks
Author: Chan-Byoung Chae
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2008
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Next generation wireless systems will use multiple antenna technologies, also known as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), to provide high data rates and robustness against fading. MIMO communication strategies for single user communication systems and their practical application in wireless networks are by now well known. MIMO communication systems, however, can benefit from multiuser processing by coordinating the transmissions to multiple users simultaneously. For numerous reasons, work on the theory of multiuser MIMO communication has yet to see broad adoption in wireless communication standards. For example, global knowledge of channel state information is often required. Such an unrealistic assumption, however, makes it difficult in practice to implement precoding techniques. Furthermore, the achievable rates of the conventional multiuser MIMO techniques are far from the theoretical performance bounds. These and other factors motivate research on practical multiuser communication strategies for the MIMO broadcast channel (point to multi-point communication) and the analysis of those strategies. The primary contributions of this dissertation are i) the development of four novel low complexity coordinated MIMO transceiver design techniques to approach the theoretical performance bound and ii) the investigation of the optimality of the proposed coordinated wireless MIMO networks. Several coordinated beamforming algorithms are proposed, where each mobile station uses quantized combining vectors or each base station uses limited feedback from the MS. The asymptotic optimality of the proposed coordinated beamforming system for the MIMO Gaussian broadcast channel is next investigated. For multi-stream transmission, a novel block diagonalized vector perturbation is proposed and the achievable sum rate upper bound of the proposed system is derived. Finally, for multi-cell environments, linear and non-linear network CBF algorithms supporting multiple cell-boundary users are proposed. The optimality of network coordinated beamforming in terms of the number of receive antennas is also investigated.

Coherent Cooperative Relaying in Low Mobility Wireless Multiuser Networks

Coherent Cooperative Relaying in Low Mobility Wireless Multiuser Networks
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010
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ISBN: 383252536X

In this thesis, several important aspects of cooperative wireless multiuser networks are investigated. The focus lies on coherent two-hop relaying networks where several amplify-and-forward (AF) relays assist the communication between multiple source-destination pairs. First, the impact of local oscillator (LO) imperfections and I/Q imbalance at the relays on two-hop relaying is investigated. A special focus lies on the comparison between frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD) relays. Based on the observation that the direction in which a channel between two wireless nodes is measured has an impact on the estimate, phase synchronization requirements for coherent relaying networks are then found. Several channel estimation protocols that differ in the direction in which the single-hop channels are measured are furthermore identi'ed and their performance is compared. Next, a very simple phase synchronization scheme is presented that provides a set of relays with a common LO phase. Two coherent beamforming schemes, namely multiuser zero-forcing (MUZF) and multiuser minimum mean squared error (MMSE) relaying, are then investigated. Finally, a real-world demonstrator for distributed wireless communication networks (called RACooN Lab) is presented. It was used to implement coherent cooperative communication schemes on a practical two-hop relaying network.

Protocols for Multi-antenna Ad-hoc Wireless Networking in Interference Environments

Protocols for Multi-antenna Ad-hoc Wireless Networking in Interference Environments
Author: Danielle Ayodele Hinton
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Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010
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A fundamental question for the design of future wireless networks concerns the nature of spectrum management and the protocols that govern use of the spectrum. In the oligopoly model, spectrum is owned and centrally managed, and the protocols tend to reflect this centralized nature. In the common's model, spectrum is a public good, and protocols must support ad hoc communication. This work presents the design, tradeoffs and parameter optimization for a new protocol (Simultaneous Transmissions in Interference (STI-MAC)) for ad hoc wireless networks. The key idea behind the STI-MAC protocol is 'channel stuffing, ' that is, allowing network nodes to more efficiently use spatial, time and frequency degrees of freedom. This is achieved in three key ways. First, 'channel stuffing' is achieved through multiple antennas that are used at the receiver to mitigate interference using Minimum-Mean-Squared-Error (MMSE) receivers, allowing network nodes to transmit simultaneously in interference limited environments. The protocol also supports the use of multiple transmit antennas to beamform to the target receiver. Secondly, 'channel stuffing' is achieved through the use of a control channel that is orthogonal in time to the data channel, where nodes contend in order to participate on the data channel. And thirdly, 'channel stuffing' is achieved through a protest scheme that prevents data channel overloading. The STI-MAC protocol is analyzed via Monte-Carlo simulations in which transmitter nodes are uniformly distributed in a plane, each at a fixed distance from their target receiver; and as a function of network parameters including the number of transmit and receive antennas, the distance between a transmitter-receiver pair (link-length), the average number of transmitters whose received signal is stronger at a given receiver than its target transmitter (link-rank), number of transmitter-receiver pairs, the distribution on the requested rate, the offered load, and the transmit scheme. The STI-MAC protocol is benchmarked relative to simulations of the 802.11(n) (Wi-Fi) protocol. The key results of this work show a 3X gain in throughput relative to 802.11(n) in typical multi-antenna wireless networks that have 20 transmitter-receiver pairs, a link-length of 10 meters, four receive antennas and a single transmit antenna. We also show a reduction in delay by a factor of two when the networks are heavily loaded. We find that the link-rank is a key parameter affecting STIMAC gains over Wi-Fi. In simulations of networks with 40 transmit-receiver pairs, link-rank of three, a link-length of 10 meters, and eight transmit and receive antennas in which the transmitter beamforms to its target receiver in its strongest target channel mode, we find gains in throughput of at least 5X over the 802.11(n) protocol.

Routing with Cooperative Transmissions in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Routing with Cooperative Transmissions in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Author: Aylin Aksu
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2009-09
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ISBN: 9783838312224

Cooperative transmissions emulating multi-antenna systems may help reduce the total energy consumption in wireless networks. In this book, we define a virtual Multiple-Input Single-Output (vMISO) link to be established when a group of transmitters jointly enable space-time communications with a single receiver. We present a novel approach in characterizing the optimal multi-hop vMISO routing in ad hoc networks. The key advantages of vMISO links are the increase in transmission range and the decrease in the required transmission energy due to diversity gain. Specifically, we solve a nonlinear program that minimizes the total energy cost of reliable end-to-end transmissions by selecting the optimal cooperation set. Our results indicate that a multi-hop vMISO system is energy efficient only when a few nodes cooperate at each hop. We design a new greedy geographical vMISO routing protocol. Also, we formulate the network lifetime maximization with vMISO routing as a nonlinear program. Then, we present a novel cooperation set selection and flow augmentation based routing heuristic that can significantly increase the network lifetime compared to Single-Input Single-Output systems.

Cooperative Wireless Communications

Cooperative Wireless Communications
Author: Yan Zhang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2009-03-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420064703

Cooperative devices and mechanisms are increasingly important to enhance the performance of wireless communications and networks, with their ability to decrease power consumption and packet loss rate and increase system capacity, computation, and network resilience. Considering the wide range of applications, strategies, and benefits associated wit