ErrorPerformanceofMulti-hoppingHalf-duplexRelay.PDFVIP

Error Performance of Multi-hopping Half-duplex Relay Networks ISWPC 2008, Santorini, Greece T. Renk, C. Kloeck, H. Jaekel, F. K. Jondral Contents • Introduction • Related Work • Channel Model and Medium Access • Performance Analysis • Simulation Results • Conclusion 2 Contents • Introduction • Related Work • Channel Model and Medium Access • Performance Analysis • Simulation Results • Conclusion 3 Introduction • Multi-hop Relaying – No direct link from source to destination • Multi-route Relaying – Direct link from source to destination • Enormous research activities in the area of relaying and user cooperation – Capacity, outage probability, diversity-multiplexing trade-off … • Here: Multi-hopping half-duplex relay networks 4 Contents • Introduction • Related Work • Channel Model and Medium Access • Performance Analysis • Simulation Results • Conclusion 5 Related Work • J. Boyer et al., “A theoretical characterization of the multi-hop wireless communications channel without diversity” – Full-duplex relays • P. Herhold et al., “A simple cooperative extension to wireless relaying” – One half-duplex relay • Here: – Arbitrary number of half-duplex relays – Introduction of consecutive error: probability that an error will not be corrected by chance at an subsequent relay node 6 Contents • Introduction • Related Work • Channel Model and Medium Access • Performance Analysis • Simulation Results • Conclusion 7 Channel Model and Medium Access • Slow, flat fading Rayleigh channel – Channel coefficients hij : independent circular-symmetric complex-valued Gaussian random variables – Instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio: γ = Eb/N0 |h|2 • Time division multiple access scheme – Division into K+1 orthogonal time slots – Each transmit node transmits in a separate slot of duration T/(K+1) and with power P