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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2016, Volume 17, Issue 9 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1500436

Spatial channel pairing based coherent combining for relay networks

. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.. School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China.. National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China.. National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Available online: 2016-10-08

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Abstract

In this paper, spatial channel pairing (SCP) is introduced to coherent combining at the relay in relay networks. Closed-form solution to optimal coherent combining is derived. Given coherent combining, the approximate SCP solution is presented. Finally, an alternating iterative structure is developed. Simulation results and analysis show that, given the symbol error rate and data rate, the proposed alternating iterative structure achieves signal-to-noise ratio gains over existing schemes in maximum ratio combining (MRC) plus matched filter, MRC plus antenna selection, and distributed space-time block coding due to the use of SCP and iterative structure.

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