Efficient suboptimal transmit antenna selection for MIMO relay channels

Author

Tarkhan, A.A. ; Farzaneh, F. ; Khalaj, B.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Enginnering, Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2011

fDate

23-24 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

48

Abstract

Application of MIMO technology in cooperative communications results in many advantages such as high data rates, better reliability and coverage. A drawback of MIMO technology is its high computational complexity and high cost because it uses more antennas and RF chains. A remedy for this drawback is antenna selection technology. This technology attempts to select the best antenna based on the channel state information (CSI). Some transmit antenna selection methods have been proposed in the literature for MIMO systems. Suboptimal antenna selection has been proposed to reduce the required computation to determine the best antenna as well. Optimal and suboptimal antenna selection has not been investigated perfectly for MIMO relay systems. In this paper we propose a suboptimal transmit antenna selection for MIMO relay system which has low computational complexity and we compare its performance with optimal transmit antenna selection and other suboptimal transmit antenna selections.

Keywords

MIMO communication; amplify and forward communication; computational complexity; cooperative communication; telecommunication network reliability; transmitting antennas; MIMO relay channels; MIMO technology; amplify and forward communication; channel state information; computational complexity; cooperative communications; suboptimal transmit antenna selection; telecommunication network reliability; Computational complexity; MIMO; Qualifications; Receiving antennas; Relays; Transmitting antennas; Transmit antenna selection; amplify-and-forward; multiple-input multiple-output; relay;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (CNDS), 2011 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9153-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNDS.2011.5764583

Filename

5764583