Outage Analysis of Space Time Block Coding MIMO Cooperative System with Amplify-and-Forward Scheme

Author

Abdaoui, Abderrazek ; Ikki, Salama S. ; Ahmed, Mohamed H. ; Chatelet, Eric

Author_Institution

Inst. Charles Delaunay, Univ. de Technol. de Troyes, Troyes, France

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Outage analysis of cooperative space-time block coding (STBC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying system with a single relay is discussed in this paper. The source node, equipped with two transmit antennas, broadcasts each STBC code to the relay and the destination nodes. Then, the relay node also equipped with multiple antennas, amplifies-and-forwards (AF) the received STBC codes. Finally, the destination node uses maximum ratio combining (MRC) and exploits the diversity gain obtained through the direct and the indirect links simultaneously. Lower bounds of the outage probability is derived using the moment generating function (MGF) of the total signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a particular signal of M-ary-quadrature-amplitude modulation (M-QAM). Simulation results are provided to verify the validity of the analytical results.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; block codes; cooperative systems; diversity reception; quadrature amplitude modulation; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation; STBC code; amplify-and-forward scheme; maximum ratio combining; moment generating function; multiple antennas; multiple-input multiple-output relaying system; outage probability analysis; signal-to-noise ratio; space time block coding MIMO cooperative system; transmit antennas; Antennas; Cooperative systems; Fading; MIMO; Random variables; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3573-9

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594179

Filename

5594179