We consider a two-way relay network where the Amplify-and-Forward (AF) protocol is adopted by all relays in this paper.The network consists of two multi-antenna source nodes and multiple distributed single-antenna rel...We consider a two-way relay network where the Amplify-and-Forward (AF) protocol is adopted by all relays in this paper.The network consists of two multi-antenna source nodes and multiple distributed single-antenna relays.Two opportunistic relaying schemes are proposed to efficiently utilize the antennas of the source nodes and the relay nodes.In the first scheme,the best relay is selected out by a max-min-max criterion before transmitting.After that,at each source,only the antenna with the largest channel gain between itself and the best relay is activated to transmit and receive signals with full power.In the second scheme,assisted by the best relay which is selected by the typical max-min criterion,both source nodes use all their antennas to exchange data,and match filter beamforming techniques are employed at both source nodes.Further analyses show that all schemes can achieve the full diversity order,and the conclusions are not only mathematically demonstrated but numerically illustrated.System performance comparisons are carried out by numerical methods in terms of rate sum and outage probability,respectively.The beamforming assisted scheme can be found to be superior to the antenna selection scheme when accurate Channel State Information (CSI) is available at the transmitters.Otherwise,the latter is very suitable.展开更多
A novel downlink channel state information(CSI)feedback scheme is proposed for the closed-loopbeamforming system.In the proposed scheme,mobile terminal(MT)superposes the uplink pilot on thereceived downlink pilot,form...A novel downlink channel state information(CSI)feedback scheme is proposed for the closed-loopbeamforming system.In the proposed scheme,mobile terminal(MT)superposes the uplink pilot on thereceived downlink pilot,forms the hybrid pilot(HP),and then transmits the HP to base station(BS)viathe uplink pilot channel.Because downlink CSI can be recovered from HP at BS side without consumingextra uplink bandwidth,the proposed scheme can achieve zero-payload CSI feedback,effectively solvingthe traditional bottleneck problems,i.e.,the heavy burden for transmitting CSI.Moreover,both MT'scomplexity and feedback delays can be reduced since the downlink channel needs not to be estimated atMT any more.Simulations verify that the proposed scheme can achieve the better MSE performance forthe uplink channel estimation than the traditional scheme,and the cost for the zero-payload CSI feedbackis some acceptable loss of feedback precision.展开更多
Codebook-based multiple input multiple output(MIMO) beamforming can significantly improve the system spectral efficiency with limited feedback and gets widely adopted.However,this scheme has a drawback of heavy feedba...Codebook-based multiple input multiple output(MIMO) beamforming can significantly improve the system spectral efficiency with limited feedback and gets widely adopted.However,this scheme has a drawback of heavy feedback load that the sum feedback rate can be a bottleneck for the communication system,especially when the number of users is large.In this paper,a new scheme using pseudo-random beamforming vectors and angle based threshold in the feedback process is proposed.In the proposed scheme,both the base-station and the users have no need to store a codebook.In each access procedure,the base-station generates a pseudo-random beamforming vector,and each user calculates the angle between the beamforming vectors and its channel state information(CSI) vector.If the angle is less than a predefined angle-threshold,the user feeds back its channel quality indicators(CQI),otherwise it keep silence.Compared with the codebook based scheme,the proposed scheme can largely reduce the sum feedback rate with negligible throughput loss.In particular,when the system has a constraint on the total sum feedback rate in uplink channel,the proposed scheme can increase the system throughput significantly.展开更多
In wideband multi-pair two-way relay networks, the performance of beamforming at a relay station(RS) is intimately related to the accuracy of the channel state information(CSI) available. The accuracy of CSI is determ...In wideband multi-pair two-way relay networks, the performance of beamforming at a relay station(RS) is intimately related to the accuracy of the channel state information(CSI) available. The accuracy of CSI is determined by Doppler spread, delay between beamforming and channel estimation, and density of pilot symbols,including transmit power of pilot symbols. The coefficient of the Gaussian-Markov CSI error model is modeled as a function of CSI delay, Doppler spread, and signal-to-noise ratio, and can be estimated in real time. In accordance with the real-time estimated coefficients of the error model, an adaptive robust maximum signal-to-interferenceand-noise ratio(Max-SINR) plus maximum signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio(Max-SLNR) beamformer at an RS is proposed to track the variation of the CSI error. From simulation results and analysis, it is shown that: compared to existing non-adaptive beamformers, the proposed adaptive beamformer is more robust and performs much better in the sense of bit error rate(BER); with increase in the density of transmit pilot symbols, its BER and sum-rate performances tend to those of the beamformer of Max-SINR plus Max-SLNR with ideal CSI.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60902092
文摘We consider a two-way relay network where the Amplify-and-Forward (AF) protocol is adopted by all relays in this paper.The network consists of two multi-antenna source nodes and multiple distributed single-antenna relays.Two opportunistic relaying schemes are proposed to efficiently utilize the antennas of the source nodes and the relay nodes.In the first scheme,the best relay is selected out by a max-min-max criterion before transmitting.After that,at each source,only the antenna with the largest channel gain between itself and the best relay is activated to transmit and receive signals with full power.In the second scheme,assisted by the best relay which is selected by the typical max-min criterion,both source nodes use all their antennas to exchange data,and match filter beamforming techniques are employed at both source nodes.Further analyses show that all schemes can achieve the full diversity order,and the conclusions are not only mathematically demonstrated but numerically illustrated.System performance comparisons are carried out by numerical methods in terms of rate sum and outage probability,respectively.The beamforming assisted scheme can be found to be superior to the antenna selection scheme when accurate Channel State Information (CSI) is available at the transmitters.Otherwise,the latter is very suitable.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No. 60872048)the National Major Program of Science and Technology ( No.2008ZX03003-004 2009ZX03003-009)
文摘A novel downlink channel state information(CSI)feedback scheme is proposed for the closed-loopbeamforming system.In the proposed scheme,mobile terminal(MT)superposes the uplink pilot on thereceived downlink pilot,forms the hybrid pilot(HP),and then transmits the HP to base station(BS)viathe uplink pilot channel.Because downlink CSI can be recovered from HP at BS side without consumingextra uplink bandwidth,the proposed scheme can achieve zero-payload CSI feedback,effectively solvingthe traditional bottleneck problems,i.e.,the heavy burden for transmitting CSI.Moreover,both MT'scomplexity and feedback delays can be reduced since the downlink channel needs not to be estimated atMT any more.Simulations verify that the proposed scheme can achieve the better MSE performance forthe uplink channel estimation than the traditional scheme,and the cost for the zero-payload CSI feedbackis some acceptable loss of feedback precision.
文摘Codebook-based multiple input multiple output(MIMO) beamforming can significantly improve the system spectral efficiency with limited feedback and gets widely adopted.However,this scheme has a drawback of heavy feedback load that the sum feedback rate can be a bottleneck for the communication system,especially when the number of users is large.In this paper,a new scheme using pseudo-random beamforming vectors and angle based threshold in the feedback process is proposed.In the proposed scheme,both the base-station and the users have no need to store a codebook.In each access procedure,the base-station generates a pseudo-random beamforming vector,and each user calculates the angle between the beamforming vectors and its channel state information(CSI) vector.If the angle is less than a predefined angle-threshold,the user feeds back its channel quality indicators(CQI),otherwise it keep silence.Compared with the codebook based scheme,the proposed scheme can largely reduce the sum feedback rate with negligible throughput loss.In particular,when the system has a constraint on the total sum feedback rate in uplink channel,the proposed scheme can increase the system throughput significantly.
基金Project supported by the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University,China(No.2013D02)the Open Research Fund of National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment,China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation(No.201500013)+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61271230,61472190,and 61501238)the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20113219120019)the Jiangsu Provincial Science Foundation Project,China(No.BK20150786)
文摘In wideband multi-pair two-way relay networks, the performance of beamforming at a relay station(RS) is intimately related to the accuracy of the channel state information(CSI) available. The accuracy of CSI is determined by Doppler spread, delay between beamforming and channel estimation, and density of pilot symbols,including transmit power of pilot symbols. The coefficient of the Gaussian-Markov CSI error model is modeled as a function of CSI delay, Doppler spread, and signal-to-noise ratio, and can be estimated in real time. In accordance with the real-time estimated coefficients of the error model, an adaptive robust maximum signal-to-interferenceand-noise ratio(Max-SINR) plus maximum signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio(Max-SLNR) beamformer at an RS is proposed to track the variation of the CSI error. From simulation results and analysis, it is shown that: compared to existing non-adaptive beamformers, the proposed adaptive beamformer is more robust and performs much better in the sense of bit error rate(BER); with increase in the density of transmit pilot symbols, its BER and sum-rate performances tend to those of the beamformer of Max-SINR plus Max-SLNR with ideal CSI.