Quantize and forward cooperative communication: Channel parameter estimation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1167-1179

  Avram, Iancu ^a   Aerts, Nico ^a   Bruneel, Herwig ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

channel estimation; Cooperative systems; expectation maximization algorithms; maximum likelihood estimation; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATE; CHANNEL PARAMETER; CHANNEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; COOPERATIVE PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; ERROR PERFORMANCE; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION APPROACHES; HALF-DUPLEX; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OUTAGE BEHAVIOR; PILOT SYMBOLS; RELAY TERMINALS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84858342330     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.010312.110595     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. B. Sklar, "Rayleigh fading channels in mobile digital communication systems-part I: Characterization," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 90-100, July 1997.
2. T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory. Wiley, 1991.
3. G. J. Foschini and M. J. Gans, "On limits of wireless communications in a fading environment when using multiple antennas," Wireless Personal Commun., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 311-335, Mar. 1998.
4. G. Foschini, "Layered space time architecture for wireless communication in a fading environment when using multi-element antennas," Bell Labs. Tech. J., vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 41-59, 1996.
5. A. Sendonaris, E. Erkip, and B. Aazhang, "User cooperation diversity-part I: System Description," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1927-1938, Nov. 2003.
6. T. M. Cover and A. El Gamal, "Capacity theorems for the relay channel," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 572-584, Sep. 1979
7. A. El Gamal, M. Mohseni, and S. Zahedi, "Bounds on capacity and minimum energy-per-bit for AWGN relay channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1545-1561, Apr. 2006.
8. J. N. Laneman, Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Algorithms and Architectures. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
9. J. N. Laneman, D. N. C. Tse, and G.W.Wornell, "Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: efficient protocols and outage behavior," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 3062-3080, Dec. 2004.
10. S. Lee,W. Su, S. Batalama, and J. D. Matyjas, "Cooperative decode-Andforward ARQ relaying performance analysis and power optimization," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 2632-2642, Aug. 2010.
11. T. E. Hunter, S. Sanayei, and A. Nosratinia, "Outage analysis of coded cooperation," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 375-391, Feb. 2006.
12. M. Souryal and H. You, "Quantize-And-forward relaying with M-Ary phase shift keying," in Proc. 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 42-47
13. Y. W. Hong, W. J. Huang, F. H. Chiu, and C. C. J. Kuo, "Cooperative communications in resource-constrained wireless networks," IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 47-57, May 2007.
14. A. Chakrabarti, A. de Baynast, A. Sabharwal, and B. Aazhang, "LDPC code-design for the relay channel," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 280-291, Feb. 2007.
15. B. Gedik and M. Uysal, "Impact of imperfect channel estimation on the performance of amplify-And-forward relaying," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8, no. 3, p. 1468-1479, Mar. 2009,
16. C. S. Patel and G. L. Stuber, "Channel estimation for amplify and forward relay based cooperation diversity systems," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 2348-2356, June 2007.
17. N. Aerts, I. Avram, and M. Moeneclaey, "The Cramer-Rao bound for channel estimation in block fading amplify-And-forward relaying networks," in Proc. 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, pp. 12-16.
18. Y. Gong, Z. Ding, T. Ratnarajah, and C. F. N. Cowan, "Turbo channel estimation and equalization for a superposition-based cooperative system," IET Communications, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 1790-1799, Nov. 2010.
19. I. Avram, N. Aerts, and M. Moeneclaey, "A novel quantize-And-forward cooperative system: Channel parameter estimation techniques," 2010 Future Network & Mobile Summit.
20. I. Avram, N. Aerts, D. Duyck, and M. Moeneclaey, "A novel quantizeand-forward cooperative system: Channel estimation and M-PSK detection performance," EURASIP J. Wireless Commun. and Networking, vol. 2010, article ID 415438, 11 pages.
21. A. Dempster, N. Laird, and D. B. Rubin, "Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the EM Algorithm," J. Royal Statistical Soc., vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-38, 1977.
22. H. Wymeersch, F. Simoens, and M. Moeneclaey, "Code-Aided joint channel estimation and frame synchronization for MIMO systems," in Proc. 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, pp. 82-86.
23. F. R. Kschischang, B. J. Frey, and H. A. Loeliger, "Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 498-519, Feb. 2001.
24. H. Wymeersch, Iterative Receiver Design. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
25. S. Lin and D. Costello, Error Control Coding, 2nd edition. Pearson Education Inc., 2004.
26. N. Noels, C. Herzet, A. Dejonghe, V. Lottici, H. Steendam, M. Moeneclaey, M Luise, and L. Vandendorpe, "Turbo-synchronization: An EM algorithm approach," in Proc. 2003 IEEE ICC.