General order antenna selection in MIMO cooperative relay network

Author

Gurung, Arun K. ; Al-Qahtani, Fawaz S. ; Qaraqe, Khalid A. ; Alnuweiri, Hussein ; Hussain, Zahir M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, we apply General Order Statistics (GOS) theorem to multi-antenna (MIMO) dual-hop amplify-forward fixed-gain cooperative relay network. General order link, unlike the best one, is selected for the transmission/receiving at each hop. The closed-form expressions of SNR (Signal-to-Noise-Ratio) statistics such as CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function), PDF (Probability Density Function), MGF (Moment Generating Function) and Generalized Moments are derived. The results are used to investigate two scenarios - presence of 1) the direct link, and 2) the multiple relays. The analysis is confirmed with computer simulation, and facilitates to quantify the performance loss when lower-order antenna is selected at any node.

Keywords

MIMO communication; amplify and forward communication; antenna arrays; cooperative communication; higher order statistics; CDF; MIMO antenna; MIMO cooperative relay network; PDF; SNR statistics; amplify and forward fixed-gain cooperative relay network; antenna selection; cumulative distribution function; general order statistics; probability density function; signal-to-noise- ratio statistics; Antennas; Fading; MIMO; Probability; Probability density function; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gold Coast, QLD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7908-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7906-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCS.2010.5709700

Filename

5709700