Abstract
This work investigates the multiple-input multiple-output system in the context of the selective decode-and-forward multihop relay network under short-packet communications to facilitate not only ultra-reliability, but also low-latency communications. For the transmit and receive diversity techniques, we analyze the transmit antenna selection (TAS) and maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) schemes at the transmit side, whereas the selection-combining (SC) and maximum-ratio combining (MRC) schemes are leveraged at the receive side. For quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels and the finite-blocklength regime, we derive the approximate closed-form expressions of the end-to-end (e2e) block error rate (BLER) for the TAS/MRC, TAS/SC, and MRT/MRC schemes. The asymptotic performance in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime is derived, from which the comparison among diversity schemes in terms of the diversity order, e2e BLER loss, and SNR gap is provided. Furthermore, based on the asymptotic results, we develop power-allocation, relay-location, and joint simplified optimizations to minimize the asymptotic e2e BLER under the system constraints. The e2e latency and throughputs are also analyzed for the considered schemes. The correctness of our analysis is confirmed via Monte Carlo simulations.
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