On the performance of dual-hop multi-antenna AF transmission with interference at the relay

Author

Min Lin ; Kang An ; Jian Ouyang ; Heng Wei

Author_Institution

Nanjing Inst. of Telecommun. Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper studies the effects of antenna correlation and co-channel interference (CCI) on a dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network over Rayleigh fading channels, where the source and destination are equipped with a single antenna, while the relay has multiple antennas. By assuming that beamforming (BF) based on the available statistical channel state information (SCSI) is applied, we first obtain the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the considered dual-hop AF transmission with CCI at the relay. Then, we derive the analytical expressions for the outage probability (OP) and average symbol error rate (ASER) of the AF relaying. Finally, computer simulations are provided to validate the analytical results and quantify the effects of antenna correlation and CCI on the system performance.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; amplify and forward communication; array signal processing; cochannel interference; relay networks (telecommunication); transmitting antennas; Rayleigh fading channel; amplify and forward relay network; antenna correlation; average symbol error rate; beamforming; cochannel interference; dual hop AF transmission; multiantenna AF transmission; outage probability; output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio; statistical channel state information; Antennas; Array signal processing; Correlation; Fading; Interference; Relay networks (telecommunications); Beamforming; antenna correlation; co-channel interference; dual-hop relay network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929287

Filename

6929287