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BER Performance of SEP-based Selection Relaying in Cooperative Communications

협력통신에서 SEP 기반의 선택적 릴레이의 BER 성능

  • 공형윤 (울산대학교 전기전자정보시스템공학부) ;
  • 최대규 (울산대학교 전기전자정보시스템공학부)
  • Published : 2009.01.25
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Abstract

Selection relaying(SR) is usually based on signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) to decide whether or not to forward recovered symbols. However, instantaneous noise at relay is ignored, leading to the risk of erroneous retransmission induced by the relay that can be detrimental to the eventual detection of symbols at destination. To overcome this problem, we propose using new symbol error probability(SEP) related directly to reliability of received symbols instead of SNR. Simulation results show that the proposed SEP-based SR is considerably better than the conventional SNR-based SR under any relay position and threshold.

선택적 릴레이는 일반적으로 신호대잡음비(SNR)를 평가하여 재전송을 결정한다. 하지만, 이 방식은 릴레이에서 instantaneous 노이즈를 고려하지 않게 되므로 릴레이에서 오류가 있는 신호를 재전송할 위험이 있으며, 이는 결과적으로 목적지에서의 심볼 검출에 악영향을 끼친다. 이러한 문제를 극복하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 수신된 심볼의 신뢰성을 위해 SNR 대신 새로운 심볼에러확률(SEP)를 제안한다. 모의실험 결과는 제안한 SEP-based SR이 릴레이의 위치와 문턱 값에 상관없이 기존의 SNR-based SR에 비해 좋은 성능을 가짐을 알 수 있다.

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