A Simple Symbol Estimation for Soft Information Relaying in Cooperative Relay Channels英文文献资料.docVIP

Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2011, 4, 568-577 doi:10.4236/ijcns.2011.49068 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns) A Simple Symbol Estimation for Soft Information Relaying in Cooperative Relay Channels Azlan Abd Aziz, Yasunori Iwanami Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan E-mail: azlan@rose.elcom.nitech.ac.jp Received July 12, 2011; revised August 11, 2011; accepted August 22, 2011 Abstract This paper proposes Symbol-based Soft Forwarding (SSF) protocol for coded transmissions which is based on a simple proposed soft symbol estimation at relay nodes. We present a simple strategy of forwarding soft information based on a simple linear summation of likelihood functions of each symbol. Specifically, with SSF, we demonstrate that exclusion of decoding at the relays costs no significant performance loss. To vali- date our claims, we examine bit error rate (BER) performance for the proposed scheme against the baseline SF scheme through computer simulations. We find that the proposed scheme can obtain considerable per- formance gains compared to the conventional relaying protocol. Keywords: Symbol Estimation, Soft Information Relaying, Cooperative Relay, Symbol LLR 1. Introduction reliable re-transmissions from the relays, the authors employ error correcting codes and cyclic redundancy checks (CRC) to assist the detection at the destination. Generally, early coded cooperative relay schemes used convolutional or Turbo codes [5-8], but recently apply- ing Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes have gained more attention [9]. A drawback for single-input single output (SISO) coded scheme under block fading channel is the lack of coding gain due to the constant fading coefficient in each block of codeword [10]. This becomes a challenging task for LDPC coded schemes to co