Multibranch Regenerative DF Wireless Relay Networks under Channel Uncertainty and Node Geometry

Author

Lee, Kanghee ; Kwon, Hyuck M. ; Ibdah, Yazan ; Jo, Mansik ; Emami, Tooran ; Hyun, Inha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Wichita State Univ., Wichita, KS, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

372

Abstract

This paper studies channel uncertainty and node geometry influences on a regenerative distributed decode-and-forward (DF) wireless relay network. A network consisting of one-source-one-destination pair and N-multibranch relay nodes without a direct link between the source and the destination is investigated. A new proposed detection scheme employs the maximum ratio combiner (MRC) principle. The new detection scheme is applied at both relay nodes and the destination node, to optimally detect the original transmitted message from the source node. Monte-Carlo simulations were used to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance for the regenerative distributed DF wireless relay network using the new proposed MRC scheme.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; decode and forward communication; error statistics; radio networks; telecommunication channels; BER performance; MRC principle; Monte-Carlo simulations; N-multibranch relay nodes; bit error rate; channel uncertainty; decode-and-forward wireless relay network; maximum ratio combiner; multibranch regenerative DF wireless relay networks; node geometry; one-source-one-destination pair; transmitted message; Bit error rate; Channel estimation; Geometry; Relays; Uncertainty; Vectors; Wireless communication; Wireless relay network; bit error rate; channel uncertainty; decode-and-forward; maximum ratio combiner; node geometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (CIMSiM), 2011 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1797-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMSim.2011.73

Filename

6076387