Design and Performance Evaluation of Multiple AF-Relay Processing in Multi-Cell Environment

Author

Joung, Jingon ; Sun, Sumei

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infocomm Res. (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

For multiple half-duplex amplify -and-forward (AF) relays in cellular communications, a statistical power allocation (control) method is designed to minimize network power under the relay-transmit-power and the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio constraints. Computer simulation corroborates that the designed relay processing yields significant performance enhancement and network power reduction compared to a system with plain AF relays and a direct communication system without relays.

Keywords

amplify and forward communication; cellular radio; performance evaluation; radiofrequency interference; relays; statistical analysis; telecommunication network management; cellular communication; computer simulation; direct communication system; multicell environment; multiple AF-relay processing; multiple half-duplex amplify-and-forward relay; network power minimization; network power reduction; performance enhancement; performance evaluation; plain AF relay; relay transmit power; signal-to-interference plus noise ratio constraint; statistical power allocation method; Bit error rate; Interference; Optimization; Quality of service; Receiving antennas; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8332-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956268

Filename

5956268