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Design and Performance of Low Complexity Multiple Antenna Relay Transmission Based on STBC-OFDM

시공간 부호화 직교 주파수분할 다중화 기반 저 복잡도 다중 안테나 릴레이 전송 방식 설계 및 성능

  • 이지혜 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과) ;
  • 박재철 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과) ;
  • 왕진수 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과) ;
  • 이성로 (목포대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 김윤희 (경희대학교 전자전파공학과)
  • Received : 2011.09.28
  • Published : 2011.11.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we design multiple antenna relay transmission schemes of low complexity to enhance the spatial diversity in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The relay scheme underlined, can provide space time block coding (STBC) of OFDM signals in the time domain without IFFT and FFT operations with much reduced complexity. In this paper, we modify the conventional low-complexity STBC-OFDM relaying scheme to be compatible to the existing OFDM systems. In addition, we extend the proposed scheme for multiple antenna relays and provide performance enhancement strategies according to the channel quality information available at the relay. The proposed scheme is shown to improve the diversity and thereby to reduce the outage probability and coded bit error rate. Therefore, the proposed scheme will be promising for service quality improvement or coverage extension based on OFDM like wireless LANs and maritime communications.

본 논문에서는 직교 주파수분할 다중화 기반 시스템에서 공간 다양성을 높이기 위한 복잡도가 낮은 다중 안테나 릴레이 전송 방식을 설계한다. 기반이 되는 릴레이 전송 방식은 직교 주파수분할 다중화 신호를 주파수 영역변환 없이 시간 영역에서의 신호 처리만으로 시공간 부호화를 이룸으로써 IFFT와 FFT를 필요로 하지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 낮은 복잡도를 갖는 시공간 부호화 직교 주파수분할 다중화 릴레이 전송 방식을 상용 직교 주파수분할 다중화 시스템에 호환 기능하도록 전송 방식을 수정하고 다중 릴레이 환경에서 성능 향상을 위한 방법을 안테나별 수신 품질 정보 유무에 따라 제공한다. 제안하는 기법의 성능 평가 결과 다양성 이득이 향상되어 아웃티지 확률과 부호화 비트오류율 줄이는 것을 볼 수 있다. 이에, 직교 주파수분할 다중화 시스템을 적용하는 무선랜 및 해상 통신 시스템에서 서비스 품질 향상 또는 커버리지 확장에 유용할 것으로 판단된다.

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