Capacity analysis for MIMO two-hop two-relay amplify-and-forward relaying systems

Author

Firag, Abdulla ; Smith, Peter J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents an ergodic capacity analysis of an amplify-and-forward (AF) multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) two-hop, two relay system. We first derive an expression for the probability density function of an arbitrary eigenvalue of the system. Then, using this result, a closed form expression for the ergodic capacity of the system is derived. We present simulation results to validate our analysis. We also show that the results for a single relay system can be obtained as a special case.

Keywords

MIMO communication; channel capacity; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; probability; MIMO two-hop two-relay system; amplify-and-forward relaying system; arbitrary eigenvalue; closed form expression; ergodic capacity analysis; multiple-input multiple-output system; probability density function; Application software; Decoding; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Information analysis; Information theory; MIMO; Power system relaying; Probability density function; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Theory and Its Applications, 2008. ISITA 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Auckland

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2068-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2069-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISITA.2008.4895526

Filename

4895526