Abstract
In this paper, we jointly design linear source and relay precoders for two-hop MIMO relaying. The involved channels encounter spatially correlated fading, the source data symbols are mutually correlated, and the noises are colored not only at the destination but also at the relay. Two different scenarios of channel state information (CSI) are assumed to be available at the transmitters: full CSI of both hops (the full CSIT) and full CSI of the source-relay hop only plus the covariance information of the relay-destination hop (the partial CSIT). First, with the full CSIT, we derive optimal precoders by maximizing the instantaneous mutual information (MI). Secondly, with the partial CSIT knowledge we derive suboptimal precoders by maximizing the average MI. For both the CSIT cases, we propose an iterative algorithm to perform power allocation iteratively and alternatively between the source antennas and the relay antennas. Its simplified version in which the power allocation is performed separately between the source antennas and the relay antennas is also developed. Simulation results show that our proposed precoding schemes with the full CSIT provide significantly higher capacity than the existing schemes. Besides, the proposed schemes with the partial CSIT also perform well especially when the channels are spatially correlated at the transmit sides and at medium-to-high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), while they require much lower computational complexity and less feedback overhead.
Highlights
Relaying in which signal transmission from the source to the destination is done with the aid of one or multiple intermediate relays has received much attention due to its ability to enhance transmission reliability and extend coverage for wireless communication systems [1,2,3,4,5,6]
In [28, 29], the optimal structure of relay precoder that maximizes the mutual information (MI) of the generally correlated two-hop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems was obtained by using full channel state information (CSI) of two links and covariance matrices of the correlated source signals and the colored noises known at the relay
This paper develops the simplified precoding strategy based on the full CSIT in [31] to the iterative and simplified strategies based on the full CSIT as well as the partial CSIT
Summary
Relaying in which signal transmission from the source to the destination is done with the aid of one or multiple intermediate relays has received much attention due to its ability to enhance transmission reliability and extend coverage for wireless communication systems [1,2,3,4,5,6]. In [28, 29], the optimal structure of relay precoder that maximizes the MI of the generally correlated two-hop MIMO relay systems was obtained by using full CSI of two links and covariance matrices of the correlated source signals and the colored noises known at the relay. The partial CSIT denotes full CSI of the source-relay link and covariance information of the relay-destination link and the source signal and noise covariance matrices known to the transmitters. 4. The proposed joint precoding schemes in this paper include the relay precoding scheme with the partial CSIT for the system case of transmit-sided spatially correlated channel, white noises, independent source symbols in [5, 6] as special case.
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