Pilot matrix design for estimating cascaded channels in two-hop MIMO amplify-and-forward relay systems

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1956-1965

  Ma, Jun ^a   Orlik, Philip ^b   Zhang, Jinyun ^b   Li, Geoffrey Ye ^c  

^a MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; multi input multi output; relay channel estimation; two hop transmission

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; CHANNEL ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS; DESTINATION NODES; LEAST SQUARE ESTIMATION; MATRIX; MATRIX DESIGN; MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT; RECEIVED SIGNALS; RELAY CHANNELS; RELAY NODE; RELAY SYSTEM; SIMULATION RESULT; SOURCE NODES; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TWO-HOP TRANSMISSION;

RADIO LINKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79959570431     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.041311.101477     Document Type: Article

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