Abstract
In this paper, a novel spectrally efficient half-duplex cooperative transmission protocol is proposed for cooperative multiple-access channels in wireless vehicular networks, where multiple sources (vehicles) deliver messages to a common destination (roadside base station or roadside infrastructure) with the help of multiple decode-and-forward relays (roadside stations). The basic idea is to apply superposition coding at each transmitter in order to achieve the full diversity gain, where the linear zero-forcing detection is used at each relay to combat inter-relay interference. Compared to existing uplink cooperative protocols, the proposed scheme can exploit the cooperation involving both the relays and the sources. An achievable diversity-multiplexing trade-off is developed for the proposed transmission protocol. Even with strong inter-relay interference which has been ignored by many existing works, the proposed scheme can still approach the optimal multiple-input single-output upper bound. Numerical results have also been provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed protocol.
Highlights
1.1 Background Recent researches have paid much attention to wireless vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) since they are important to intelligent transportation, environment monitoring, etc [1,2]
The work in [18] considered a more general scenario and proposed a cooperative protocol, called relay-assisted cooperative multiple-access (CMA) (R-CMA), which carefully schedules the multiple sources and relays’ transmission, but the optimal multipleinput single-output (MISO) bound can only be approached for a large number of relays
1.3 Contribution This paper aims to design a novel cooperative transmission protocol for a CMA channel to integrate the cooperation from dedicated relays and the mutual cooperation between users
Summary
1.1 Background Recent researches have paid much attention to wireless vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) since they are important to intelligent transportation, environment monitoring, etc [1,2]. The work in [18] considered a more general scenario and proposed a cooperative protocol, called relay-assisted CMA (R-CMA), which carefully schedules the multiple sources and relays’ transmission, but the optimal MISO bound can only be approached for a large number of relays. We consider a cooperative multiple-access communication scenario in which multiple source nodes communicate with the common destination with multiple half-duplex relays Such a communication pattern is an important building block in wireless VANETs. For example, some proposals of intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) have introduced a variety of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside-infrastructure communications. The main novelty is that a new cooperative multiple-access transmission protocol has been designed by carefully applying these low-cost tools (zero-forcing detection, antenna selection, superposition coding, repetition-coded decode-and-forward, etc.) and fully exploiting the potentials of relay and source cooperation. The proposed protocol consists of two stages, initialization and data transmission
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