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Performance Analysis of Amplify and Forward (AF)-based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Khan, Muhammad Sajjad;Koo, Insoo
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.223-228
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    • 2013
  • Cognitive radio has been recently considered a promising technology to improve spectrum utilization by enabling secondary access to licensed bands that are not used by primary users temporarily or spatially. A prerequisite to this secondary access is the lack of interference to the primary system. This requirement makes spectrum sensing a key process for cognitive radio. In this study, we consider amplify and forward (AF)-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks where multiple relay nodes are utilized to amplify and forward the primary user signal for better spectrum sensing, and maximum ratio combining is used for fusion detection by a cognitive coordinator. Further, the detection probability and the bit error rate of AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing are analyzed in fading multiple cognitive relay channels. The simulation results show that the AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme outperforms the conventional scheme.

Performance Bounds of an Amplify-and-Forward Relay System with Multiple Rayleigh-faded Co-channel Interferers (레일리 페이딩을 겪는 다중 간섭 채널 환경에서 증폭-후-전달 릴레이 시스템의 성능 한계)

  • Ryu, Hyun-Seok;Kang, Chung-G.
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37 no.2B
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    • pp.87-96
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we consider a 2-hop relay system where both the relay and destination nodes suffer from the arbitrary number of co-channel interferers. More specifically, assuming that the relay and access channels as well as interference channels are all subject to Rayleigh fading, we derive an exact closed-form expression for outage probability of the amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system, and furthermore compute its upper and lower bounds. Based on these bounds, we derive the upper and lower bounds on the average bit error rate (BER) of the AF relay system. We also confirm the accuracy of our derivation by investigating the performance gap between the performance bounds under consideration and simulation results.

Outage Capacity Analysis for Cooperative DF and AF Relaying in Dissimilar Rayleigh Fading Channels

  • Shrestha, Suchitra;Chang, Kyung-Hi
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.4A
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    • pp.361-370
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    • 2008
  • Cooperative relaying permits one or more relay to transmit a signal from the source to the destination, thereby increasing network coverage and spectral efficiency. The performance of cooperative relaying is often measured as outage probability. However, appropriate measure for the channel quality is outage capacity. Although the outage probability for cooperative relaying protocol has been analyzed before, very little research has been addressed for the outage capacity. This paper is the first of its kind to derive a closed-form analytical solution of outage capacity using fixed decode and forward relaying and amplify and forward relaying in dissimilar Rayleigh fading channels, considering channel coefficients known to the receiver side. The analytical results show a tradeoff between the SNR and the number of relays for specific outage capacity. A comparison between decode and forward relaying and amplify and forward relaying shows that decode and forward relaying outperforms amplify and forward relaying for a large number of relays.

Outage Analysis of OFDM-Based Dual-hop Multi-Relay Systems with Best Relay Selection (최선 릴레이 선택을 적용한 OFDM 기반 이중-홉 다중 릴레이 시스템의 아웃티지 성능 분석)

  • Park, Jae-Cheol;Wang, Jin-Soo;Lee, Ji-Hye;Kim, Yun-Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.5C
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    • pp.487-494
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents an OFDM-based dual-hop multi-relay system with best relay selection maximizing the mutual information. For the system either with decode-and-forward (DF) relays or with amplify-and-forward (AF) relays, we derive a lower-bound on the outage probability and the diversity order achievable in frequency selective fading channels and provide the outage capacity from simulation. Performance evaluation shows that both DF and AF provide the same diversity order as in the lower-bound but DF of which the outage probability is much closer to the lower-bound provides a better outage capacity than AF. It is also observed that the SNR gain of DF over AF gets larger as either the number of resolvable multipaths or the number of relay candidates increases, which makes DF relaying more favorable to the OFDM-based multi-relay system.

Active Transmission Scheme to Achieve Maximum Throughput Over Two-way Relay Channel (양방향 중계채널에서 최대 전송률을 위한 동적 전송 기법)

  • Park, Ji-Hwan;Kong, Hyung-Yun
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2009
  • In the two-way relay channel, the relay employ Amplify-and-Forward (AF) or Decode-and-Forward (DF) protocol, and broadcast the network-coded signal to both user. In the system, DF protocol provides maximum throughput at low signal to noise ratio(SNR). On the other hand, at high SNR, AF protocol provides maximum throughput. The paper propose active transmission scheme which employ Amplify-and-Forward or Decode-and-Forward protocol based on received SNR at the relay over Two-way relay channel. The optimal threshold is investigated numerically for switching the protocol. Through numerical results, we confirm that the proposed scheme outperforms conventional schemes over two-way relay channel.

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Design of Amplify-and-Forward Helper Stations for Cellular Networks with Device-to-Device Links (단말 간 직접 통신을 포함하는 셀룰러 망을 위한 증폭 후 전달 방식 조력국의 설계 방법)

  • Chung, Jihoon;Kim, Donggun;Sung, Youngchul
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.539-545
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, the use of an amplify-and-forward (AF) helper station in a cellular network with device-to-device (D2D) communication links is considered to enhance D2D rates and control the interference caused by D2D users to the cellular network. Two design criteria for the AF helper station are considered to improve the overall system quality-of-service (QoS). One is maximization of the worst D2D user rate under a constraint on interference caused by D2D users to the cellular network and the other is its dual, i.e., minimization of interference caused by D2D users to the cellular network with minimum rate guarantee for each D2D user. It is shown that the considered problems reduce to semi-definite programming (SDP) problems. Numerical results show that the proposed AF helper station significantly improves the system performance.

Single Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization in 3-slot Based Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Network for Shadow Area (음영 지역을 위한 3-슬롯 기반의 AF 방식 중계기 네트워크에서의 단일 반송파 주파수 대역 등화 기법)

  • Won, Hui-Chul
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2012
  • In order to extend cell coverage and to cope with shadow areas, a relay-assisted wireless communications system has been widely studied. In this paper, we propose new equalization method for single carrier (SC) frequency domain equalizer (FDE) in amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying multi-path networks to improve the performance at shadow areas. The performance of SC-FDE system in 3-slot based multi-path networks can be improved considerably with the diversity gain which we obtain by equalizing the combined signal from relays by means of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criteria. We find the weighting coefficients of maximum ratio combining (MRC) and the tap coefficients of MMSE equalizer for SC-FDE in AF relaying multi-path networks. Simulation results show that the proposed system considerably outperforms the conventional SC-FDE system.

Exact and Approximate Symbol Error Probability of cooperative systems with best relay selection and all participating relaying using Amplify and Forward or Decode and Forward Relaying over Nakagami-m fading channels

  • Halima, Nadhir Ben;Boujemaa, Hatem
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.81-108
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we derive the theoretical Symbol Error Probability (SEP) of cooperative systems with best relay selection for Nakagami-m fading channels. For Amplify and Forward (AF) relaying, the selected relay offers the best instantaneous Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of the relaying link (source-relay-destination). In cooperative networks using Decode and Forward (DF), the selected relay offers the best instantaneous SNR of the link between the relay and the destination among the relays that have correctly decoded the transmitted information by the source. In the second part of the paper, we derive the SEP when all participating AF and DF relaying is performed. In the last part of the paper, we extend our results to cognitive radio networks where there is interference constraints : only relays that generate interference to primary receiver lower than a predefined threshold T can transmit. Both AF and DF relaying with and without relay selection are considered.

MRC MMSE Equalization for SC-FDE in Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Networks (AF 방식 중계기 네트워크에서의 SC-FDE를 위한 MRC MMSE 등화 기법)

  • Won, Hui-Chul
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2011
  • Relay-assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technique has become a promising candidate for next generation broadband wireless communications. In this paper, we propose maximum ratio combining (MRC) minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) equalization for single carrier-frequency domain equalizer (SC-FDE) in amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying networks. The performance of SC-FDE system can be improved considerably by achieving both the diversity gain and the MMSE equalization gain when the signals from source-destination (S->D) and source-relay-destination (S->R->D) are combined and equalized by means of the MMSE criteria. We find the weighting coefficients of MRC combining and the tap coefficients of MMSE equalizer for SC-FDE in AF relaying networks. Simulation results show that the proposed relay-based system considerably outperforms the conventional SC-FDE system.

Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Relaying in Cooperative Networks with Partial Relay Selection (부분 중계노드 선택 기반의 협력 네트워크에서 증폭 후 전송 방식에 대한 성능분석)

  • Hwang, Ho-seon;Ahn, Kyung-seung
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.12
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    • pp.2317-2323
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we analyze the performance of dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying in cooperative networks with partial relay selection. An AF relay gain considered in this paper includes channel-noise-assisted relay gain. Leveraging a received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) model, we derive exact closed-form expressions for the probability density function (pdf) and cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the end-to-end SNR. Moreover, an exact closed-form expression of the ergodic capacity for dual-hop AF relaying with channel-noise-assisted relay gain and partial relay selection is investigated. The analytical results shown in this paper are confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulations.