Optimal beamformer design for dual-hop MIMO AF relay networks over rayleigh fading channels

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1402-1414

  Li, Min ^a,b   Lin, Min ^c   Yu, Quan ^a,b   Zhu, Wei Ping ^d   Dong, Lei ^e  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Engineering Corporation   (China)

^c Nanjing Institute of Telecommunication Technology   (China)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

beamforming (BF); multiple input multiple output (MIMO); performance analysis; Relay network

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; AVERAGE SYMBOL ERROR RATE (SER); BEAMFORMER DESIGN; CLOSED FORM; ERGODIC CAPACITY; M-ARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; MIMO RELAY NETWORKS; MODULATION FORMATS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; OPTIMAL BEAMFORMING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RELAY NETWORK; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RAYLEIGH FADING;

RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865473941     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120910     Document Type: Article

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