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Outage Analysis of OFDM-Based Dual-hop Multi-Relay Systems with Best Relay Selection

최선 릴레이 선택을 적용한 OFDM 기반 이중-홉 다중 릴레이 시스템의 아웃티지 성능 분석

  • 박재철 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과) ;
  • 왕진수 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과) ;
  • 이지혜 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과) ;
  • 김윤희 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과)
  • Received : 2010.01.14
  • Accepted : 2010.03.19
  • Published : 2010.05.31
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Abstract

This paper presents an OFDM-based dual-hop multi-relay system with best relay selection maximizing the mutual information. For the system either with decode-and-forward (DF) relays or with amplify-and-forward (AF) relays, we derive a lower-bound on the outage probability and the diversity order achievable in frequency selective fading channels and provide the outage capacity from simulation. Performance evaluation shows that both DF and AF provide the same diversity order as in the lower-bound but DF of which the outage probability is much closer to the lower-bound provides a better outage capacity than AF. It is also observed that the SNR gain of DF over AF gets larger as either the number of resolvable multipaths or the number of relay candidates increases, which makes DF relaying more favorable to the OFDM-based multi-relay system.

본 논문은 OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) 기반 이중-홉 다중 릴레이 시스템에서 상호정보를 최대로 하는 릴레이 선택 기법을 고려한다. 상기 시스템에서 DF (decode-and-forward) 릴레이를 적용할 때와 AF (amplify-and-forward) 릴레이를 적용할 때에 대해 각각 시스템 아웃티지 확률에 대한 하한과 제공 가능한 최대 다양성 차수를 유도하고 모의실험으로 아웃티지 용량을 제공한다. 성능 평가 결과 DF와 AF 방식 모두 아웃티지 확률 하한과 동일한 다양성 차수를 제공하지만, DF가 AF보다 아웃티지 확률 하한에 더 가깝고 더 큰 아웃티지 용량을 제공함을 볼 수 있다. 또한, 플랫 페이딩과 달리 주파수 선택성 채널에서는 다중 경로 수가 증가하거나 릴레이 선택의 후보 릴레이 수가 증가할수록 AF에 대한 DF 방식의 성능 이득이 더욱 커짐을 볼 수 있다. 따라서, OFDM 기반 다중 릴레이 시스템에서는 성능 면에서 AF 릴레이보다는 DF 릴레이가 유리함을 알 수 있다.

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Supported by : 한국연구재단

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