• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2722-2742
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• 2014

We propose methods of linear transceiver design for two different power constraints, sum relay power constraint and per relay power constraint, which determine signal processing matrices such as base station (BS) transmitter, relay precoders and user receivers to minimize sum mean square error (SMSE) for multi-relay multi-user (MRMU) networks. However, since the formulated problem is non-convex one which is hard to be solved, we suboptimally solve the problems by defining convex subproblems with some fixed variables. We adopt iterative sequential designs of which each iteration stage corresponds to each subproblem. Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) theorem and SMSE duality are employed as specific methods to solve subproblems. The numerical results verify that the proposed methods provide comparable performance to that of a full relay cooperation bound (FRCB) method while outperforming the simple amplify-and-forward (SAF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) relaying in terms of not only SMSE, but also the sum rate.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2616-2635
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an iterative transceiver design in a multi-relay multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The design criterion is to minimize sum mean squared error (SMSE) under relay sum power constraint (RSPC) where only local channel state information (CSI)s are available at relays. Local CSI at a relay is defined as the CSI of the channel between BS and the relay in the $1^{st}$ hop link, and the CSI of the channel between the relay and all users in the $2^{nd}$ hop link. Exploiting BS transmitter structure which is concatenated with block diagonalization (BD) precoder, each relay's precoder can be determined using local CSI at the relay. The proposed scheme is based on sequential iteration of two stages; stage 1 determines BS transmitter and relay precoders jointly with SMSE duality, and stage 2 determines user receivers. We verify that the proposed scheme outperforms simple amplify-and-forward (SAF), minimum mean squared error (MMSE) relay, and an existing good scheme of [13] in terms of both SMSE and sum-rate performances.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권4C호
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• pp.414-423
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• 2009

본 논문은 최대 전송률에 가까운 성능을 보이는 선형 preceding 기법을 제안한다. MMSE preceding은 ZF preceding 방식보다 우수한 평균 자승 오차 성능을 가진다. 반면 MMSE preceding 방식의 전송률은 낮은 SNR 범위에서는 ZF 방식에 비해 개선된 성능을 보여주지만 높은 SNR에서는 오히려 성능 열화현상을 보인다. 이와 같은 사실에 착안하여 본 논문에서는 최대 전송률에 근접하는 선형 preceding 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방식은 ZF precoding방식에서 사용되는 역행렬 연산을 전송율이 최대화될 수 있도록 정규화하는 방식이고 이를 위한 간단한 수치 알고리즘이 제안된다. 또한 그 과정에서 낮은 복잡도를 가지는 간단한 전력 재할당에 의한 정규화 방식이 제안된다. 시뮬레이션과 성능분석을 통해 제안된 방식이 모든 SNR 범위에서 기존의 ZF preceding 방식과 MMSE preceding방식보다 높은 전송률을 가짐을 보인다. 또한 제안된 방식은 채널 추정 오차가 존재하는 경우에도 기존의 선형 preceding 방식들과 비교하여 성능 이득을 유지하면서 채널 추정 오차에 강인함을 가진다.