Abstract
We analyze the outage performance of half-duplex amplify-and-forward relaying in an OFDM system with MRC detection in the presence of I/Q imbalance and compare it with that of the direct transmission mode. Both analytical and numerical results demonstrate that the direct mode can outperform the amplify-and-forward mode even under moderate levels of uncompensated I/Q imbalance. The cross-over I/Q imbalance levels are determined analytically to be inversely proportional to the cube of the signal constellation size. In addition, we present a low-complexity receiver-based digital baseband I/Q imbalance compensation scheme for the amplify-and-forward mode and analyze its EVM performance. Furthermore, we derive accurate analytical approximations for the EVM performance as a function of relay location and I/Q imbalance level with and without compensation.
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