Cooperative Wireless Communication Research Articles

Resource allocation for wireless cooperative networks: a unified cooperative bargaining game theoretic framework

Wireless cooperative communications require appropriate spectrum allocation (SA) and power allocation (PA) between the source and relay nodes. In this article, we first present an overview of the game theoretic incentive mechanisms for stimulating cooperation among selfish user nodes. Thereafter, the related issues on user payoff function design and the corresponding SA and PA strategies are discussed. To distribute the collective capacity gains among the cooperative nodes efficiently, we analyze and then formulate multiple resource allocation problems including SA, PA, and simultaneous multiresource allocation (SMRA) problems into the unified cooperative bargaining game, and the Nash bargaining solution method is utilized to solve these problems. Moreover, we propose to decompose the SMRA game into multiple single-resource allocation games and then resolve them sequentially. Finally, various game results are compared with a view to highlight that the decomposed SMRA game could obtain a good trade-off between computational complexity and system efficiency.

Bargaining game theoretic power control in selfish cooperative relay networks

Wireless cooperative communications require appropriate power allocation (PA) between the source and relay nodes. In selfish cooperative communication networks, two partner user nodes could help relaying information for each other, but each user node has the incentive to consume his power solely to decrease its own symbol error rate (SER) at the receiver. In this paper, we propose a fair and efficient PA scheme for the decode-and-forward cooperation protocol in selfish cooperative relay networks. We formulate this PA problem as a two-user cooperative bargaining game, and use Nash bargaining solution (NBS) to achieve a win-win strategy for both partner users. Simulation results indicate that the NBS is fair in that the degree of cooperation of a user only depends on how much contribution its partner can make to decrease its SER at the receiver, and efficient in the sense that the SER performance of both users could be improved through the game.

STiCMAC: A MAC Protocol for Robust Space-Time Coding in Cooperative Wireless LANs

Relay-assisted cooperative wireless communication has been shown to have significant performance gains over the legacy direct transmission scheme. Compared with single relay based cooperation schemes, utilizing multiple relays further improves the reliability and rate of transmissions. Distributed space-time coding (DSTC), as one of the schemes to utilize multiple relays, requires tight coordination between relays and does not perform well in a distributed environment with mobility. In this paper, a cooperative medium access control (MAC) layer protocol, called STiCMAC, is designed to allow multiple relays to transmit at the same time in an IEEE 802.11 network. The transmission is based on a novel DSTC scheme called randomized distributed space-time coding (R-DSTC), which requires minimum coordination. Unlike conventional cooperation schemes that pick nodes with good links, STiCMAC picks a transmission mode that could most improve the end-to-end data rate. Any station that correctly receives from the source can act as a relay and participate in forwarding. The MAC protocol is implemented in a fully decentralized manner and is able to opportunistically recruit relays on the fly, thus making it robust to channel variations and user mobility. Simulation results show that the network capacity and delay performance are greatly improved, especially in a mobile environment.

Anti-Eavesdropping Space-Time Network Coding for Cooperative Communications

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium, wireless transmissions can be overheard by any undesired receivers with eavesdropping capability within source transmission range. A novel physical layer approach for secure wireless cooperative communications against eavesdropping is proposed in this paper. For an asynchronous cooperative communication network with a cluster of user nodes transmitting to a common destination, we propose an anti-eavesdropping space-time network coding (AE-STNC) scheme to prevent eavesdropping and overcome the problem of imperfect synchronization. In the proposed scheme, training symbols are first transmitted by the destination (D). Owing to channel reciprocity, each user node can obtain the channel state information (CSI) between itself and D, which is unavailable to the eavesdroppers. By exploiting such CSI, anti-eavesdropping encoding is designed for each user node to create high decoding error rate at the eavesdroppers and ensure successful decoding at D. Furthermore, the AE-STNC is designed to achieve full diversity at D. Power allocation subject to average power constraint is considered and the secure region against eavesdroppers is also investigated. Based on the proposed AE-STNC scheme, an anti-eavesdropping space-time-frequency coding (AE-STFNC) scheme is proposed for broadband asynchronous cooperative communications. Simulations are provided to verify the performance and security of the proposed transmission schemes.

Space-Time Coding Technique Based on Four-Antenna Transceiver System

Space-time block code, as one of the space-time codes, greatly improves the performance in the cooperative wireless communication systems by the use of space and time diversity. However, traditional STBC can’t enhance the overall transmission rate and there is no form of complex codes with the rate of 1 when the number of antenna is more than 2. In order to design codes with full-rate, we refer to quasi-orthogonal STBC whose generator matrix is orthogonal between its subspaces. In this paper, based on the combination of QO-STBC and Self-adaptation technology, we propose a new plan of space-time coding which dismisses the interference among symbols when decoding and advances the coding capabilities in the context of full-rate transmission, finally we justify the new plan through lots of computational simulations.

Prolog to "Near-Capacity Wireless Transceivers and Cooperative Communications in the MIMO Era: Evolution of Standards, Waveform Design, and Future Perspectives"

This paper reviews the history and current status of wireless baseband transceiver design, including those that are capable of attaining substantial reductions in transmit power in the light of their performance expectations when communicating over wireless channels.

Code-Rate-Optimized Differentially Modulated Near-Capacity Cooperation

It is widely recognized that half-duplex-relay-aided differential decode-and-forward (DDF) cooperative transmission schemes are capable of achieving a cooperative diversity gain, while circumventing the potentially excessive-complexity and yet inaccurate channel estimation, especially in mobile environments. However, when a cooperative wireless communication system is designed to approach the maximum achievable spectral efficiency by taking the cooperation-induced multiplexing loss into account, it is not obvious whether or not the relay-aided system becomes superior to its direct-transmission based counterpart, especially, when advanced channel coding techniques are employed. Furthermore, the optimization of the transmit-interval durations required by the source and relay is an open issue, which has not been well understood in the context of half-duplex relaying schemes. Hence, we first find the optimum transmission duration, which is proportional to the adaptive channel-code rate of the source and relay in the context of Code-Rate-Optimized (CRO) TDMA-based DDF-aided half-duplex systems for the sake of maximizing the achievable network throughput. Then, we investigate the benefits of introducing cooperative mechanisms into wireless networks, which may be approached in the context of the proposed CRO cooperative system both from a pure capacity perspective and from the practical perspective of approaching the Discrete-input Continuous-output Memoryless Channel (DCMC) capacity with the aid of the proposed Irregular Distributed Differential (IrDD) coding aided scheme. In order to achieve a near-capacity performance at a low-complexity, an adaptive-window-duration based Multiple-Symbol Differential Sphere Detection (MSDSD) scheme is employed in the iterative detection aided receiver. Specifically, upon using the proposed near-capacity system design, the IrDD coding scheme devised becomes capable of performing within about 1.8 dB from the corresponding single-relay-aided DDF cooperative system's DCMC capacity.

협력 공간 분할 다중 접속 기술을 위한 제한된 피드백과 스케줄링

본 논문은 협력 무선 통신 시스템에서 역방향 링크의 제한된 피드백 채널을 통해 AT(Access Terminal)로부터 전달된 부분적인 채널 정보만을 이용하여, 인접 BTS(Base Transceiver Station)에 의한 타 셀 간섭을 효과적으로 억제하는 협력 공간 분할 다중 접속 기술을 제안하였다. 제안하는 협력 공간 분할 다중 접속 기술에서, AT는 각 링크별로 다중 사용자 다이버시티 이득을 최대화 하는 최적의 전송 모드를 선택하고 이를 피드백하며, 클러스터 스케줄러는 각 전송 모드별로 동일 전송 모드를 선택하는 AT들에 대해 스케줄링을 수행하고, 최대 스케줄링 우선 순위를 제공하는 클러스터의 전송 모드와 해당 AT들을 선택한다. 또한, 다중 사용자 다이버시티 이득을 증가시키기 위해, 각 AT별로 다수의 선호하는 전송 모드를 피드백하는 확장된 전송 모드 피드백 방식을 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 기술이 시스템의 상향 링크 피드백의 허용된 용량에 따라 최적의 피드백 방식을 선택함으로써 시스템 전송 용량을 상당히 향상시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. In this paper, coordinated space division multiple access(SDMA) technology is proposed to mitigate inter-cell interference by using partial channel state information in cooperative wireless communications system with limited feedback. Each AT selects an optimal cluster transmission mode and sends it back to a cluster scheduler, and at the cluster scheduler, ATs are scheduled within a AT group with the identical cluster transmission mode, and the optimal transmission mode and the corresponding scheduled ATs are determined to maximize scheduling priority. Also, in order to enhance multiuser diversity gain, an extended transmission feedback method is proposed to feed back multiple preferred cluster transmission modes at each AT. It is shown that the proposed coordinated SDMA scheme outperforms existing non-coordinated SDMA schemes in terms of the average system throughput.

Performance Evaluation of a Cooperative OFDM System with implementation of DAF and AAF Relaying Protocols on Color image transmission

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a single-relay cooperative wireless communication system with implementation of Orthogonal Frequency division multiplexing technique under Amplifyand-Forward (AAF) and Decode-and-Forward (DAF) relaying protocols on color image transmission. The system under investigation incorporates four conventional signal combining schemes such as Equal Ratio Combining (ERC) and Fixed Ratio Combining (FRC), Signal to Noise Ratio Combining (SNRC) and Enhanced Signal to Noise Ratio Combining (ESNRC) under BPSK and QPSK digital modulations. In the present study, results of BER simulation in AWGN and Raleigh fading channels shows that the system outperforms in ERC combining scheme as compared to others (FRC, SNRC and ESNRC) under BPSK digital modulation and AAF relaying protocol. It is observed that a quite satisfactory system performance is achieved in ERC scheme under AAF relaying protocol with BPSK digital modulation. It has been anticipated from the simulation study that the performance of the cooperative OFDM communication system degrades with the increasing of noise power and level of modulation.

Bandwidth Resource Competition in Cooperative Cognitive Wireless Communications

In this paper, we analyze the behavior of Cooperative Cognitive Wireless nodes for the bandwidth resource competition using the ecological models of mutualism. We transform our cooperative cognitive wireless communication (CCWC) system as mutually interacting species. The two types of species are primary and secondary users. The Primary users have under-utilized licensed bandwidth to be shared with the secondary users. On the other hand, secondary users are willing to behave as possible relays for cognitive primary users, in exchange of shared licensed bandwidth. So, instead of pricing model, the proposed system is analyzed with the traditional barter system (exchange of commodities). We analyzed our proposed system based on three ecological models. Our first model is based on the coalitional form of Lotka–Volterra equations, where predator-prey role of mobile nodes are replaced with cooperation as in symbiosis. The second model deals with the population dynamism of strategically interacting partner for conflicting bandwidth resource. The third model adds the dynamism for the varying amount of bandwidth to be shared among the individual mobile users. For each type, a mathematical model is derived and then simulated for the equilibrium position analysis. The obtained results show that sharing of bandwidth resource is essential for the existence of CCWC systems.

Diversity Gains for Different Cooperative Schemes on Fast Fading Channels

The use of single-antenna terminals for coherent cooperative wireless communications has received more attention in literature than for non-coherent communications. But acquiring knowledge of the fading coefficients in a cooperative scheme is very challenging in a fast fading case. In this paper, we develop several cooperative schemes suited for systems which do not require channel state information at either relays or destination. We analyze the performance of these schemes in terms of diversity gain and error probability. The diversity gained with an equal gain combiner at the destination is investigated too. The proposed cooperative schemes are compared to the literature and are shown to achieve significant performance gain depending on the type of relaying protocol.

Dispensing with Channel Estimation: Differentially Modulated Cooperative Wireless Communications

As a benefit of bypassing the potentially excessive-complexity and yet inaccurate channel estimation, differentially encoded modulation in conjunction with low-complexity non-coherent detection constitutes a viable candidate for user-cooperative systems, where estimating all the links by the relays is unrealistic. In order to stimulate further research on differentially modulated cooperative systems, a number of fundamental challenges encountered in their practical implementations are addressed, including the time-variant-channel-induced performance erosion, flexible cooperative protocol designs, resource allocation as well as its high-spectral-efficiency transceiver design. Our investigations demonstrate the quantitative benefits of cooperative wireless networks both from a pure capacity perspective as well as from a practical system design perspective.

Interference Cancellation in Cooperative CDMA Networks

The wireless communication networks are subjected to multi access interference and multipath fading. To minimize the interference cancellation in CDMA networks, multiple user detection schemes and cooperative communication networks are used. consider the uplink of a cooperative CDMA network, where users cooperate by relaying each other’s messages to the base station. When spreading waveforms are not orthogonal, multiple access interference (MAI) exists at the relays and the destination, causing cooperative diversity gains to diminish. To overcome this problem, we integrate various multiuser detection (MUD) schemes to mitigate MAI in achieving the full advantages of cooperation. Specifically, the relay-assisted decorrelating multiuser detector (RADMUD) is proposed to separate interfering signals at the destination with the help of precoding at the relays along with pre-whitening at the destination. In this paper we examined the BER performance of various MUD schemes are analyzed and compared with cooperative system. The advantages of RAD-MUD with co-operative communication shows better BER performance compared with non co-operative wireless communication system and other existing cooperative MUD schemes are also shown through MATLAB Simulations.

Outage Probability and Power Allocation of Amplify and Forward Relaying with Channel Estimation Errors

This paper studies the statistical properties of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the dual-hop relaying link in a cooperative wireless communication system in the presence of channel estimation errors for fixed-gain (FG) and variable-gain (VG) relays. The SNR expression is derived and three different analytical approaches with different simplifying assumptions are proposed to obtain the probability distribution function of the SNR and the outage probability in each mode. All but one approach result in closed-form expressions for the outage probability. The simplest approach in each mode has been used to find an optimum power allocation scheme for pilot and data symbols transmission at the source and the relay that results in minimizing the outage probability. Numerical analysis is used to confirm the accuracy of the derived theory and to show that the analytical approaches have a good outage performance, especially as the relay-destination distance increases. It is shown that significant power savings (e.g. 6 dB in VG mode) can be obtained by using the proposed power optimization method.

The study on degree distribution property of complex network based on cooperative communication

Complex networks have been widely studied. Recently, many results show that the degree distributions of some large networks follow the form of power-law and these networks possess better robustness against random nodes failure. As an effective technology on combating the channel fading, wireless cooperative communication is becoming one of the most important methods to improve the wireless communication performances. In this paper, the complex network models based on cooperative communication and non-cooperative communication are established; and the degree distribution properties for them are studied. The simulation results show that the degree distributions of these networks also follow the form of power-law, which means that the addition of cooperative communication links will not change the property of degree distribution and then these networks will possess better robustness against random nodes failure as well.

Cooperative Signaling with Soft Information Combining

We propose a Decode‐and‐Forward (DF) scheme using distributed Turbo code (DTC) for a three‐node (source, relay, and destination) wireless cooperative communication system. The relay decodes, then interleaves, and reencodes the decoded data. It then forwards the reencoded packet and its instantaneous receive SNR to the destination. The performances using both ideal and quantized SNR are studied. The destination uses a modified metric within a Turbo decoding algorithm to scale the soft information calculated for the relay code. The proposed scheme is simple to implement and performs well.

Performance of Block-Double Differential Design for Broadband Cooperative Communications with Carrier Frequency Offsets

In this letter, a relay-assisted transmission scenario over frequency-selective fading channels perturbed by different random carrier frequency offsets is considered. OFDM and block-double differential (BDD) design are implemented to overcome the problem of intersymbol interference (ISI) and carrier frequency offsets (CFOs). We analyze the symbol error rate (SER) performance of decode-and-forward relaying with BDD design in wireless cooperative communications over frequency-selective fading channels and derive a theoretical upper bound for average SER when the relay (R) is error free. It can be seen from our analysis that the system performance is influenced by the ability of R to decode, and when R decodes without error, both spatial and multipath diversity can be obtained without requiring any knowledge of channel state information and CFO information at the receivers. Numerical examples are provided to corroborate our theoretical analysis.

A utility‐based capacity optimization framework for achieving cooperative diversity in the hierarchical converged heterogeneous wireless networks

AbstractA hierarchical convergence mechanism for the heterogeneous wireless communication system via the heterogeneous cooperative relay node is presented in this paper, in which the techniques of cooperative communication and wireless relay are utilized to improve performances of the individual user and the overall converged networks. In order to evaluate the benefits of the proposal, a utility‐based capacity optimization framework for achieving the heterogeneous cooperative diversity gain is proposed. The heterogeneous cooperative capacity, relay selection and power allocation theoretical models are derived individually. The joint optimization model for relay selection and power allocation is presented as well. Owing to the computation complexity, the sub‐optimal cooperative relay selection algorithm, the sub‐optimal power allocation algorithm and the sub‐optimal joint algorithm are determined to approach the maximum overall networks' spectrum efficiency. These proposed algorithms are designed in conformance to guarantee the equivalent transmission rates of the different wireless access networks. The simulation results demonstrate that the utility‐based capacity model is available for the heterogeneous cooperative wireless communication system, and the proposed algorithms can improve performances by achieving the cooperative gain and taking full advantage of the cross‐layer design. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Radio resource management for cooperative wireless communication systems with organized beam-hopping techniques

Readiness in deployment and flexibility in radio resource configuration are the main features of future wireless communication systems. A cooperative wireless communication system (CWCS) is proposed to follow the same principle, aiming at improving the overall performance of a wireless system with the support of advanced beam-hopping techniques. In this article, we propose a multiloop radio resource management mechanism for the CWCS based on the organized beam-hopping (OBH) technique. The proposed RRM mechanism enhances the robustness of the CWCS, based on the OBH technique working with fast temporal-spatial variant traffic. The results show that the system performance can be further improved by hybrid transmission and event- driven access management techniques.

Distributed Linear Block Coding for Cooperative Wireless Communications

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> Performance of wireless communications systems is degraded by fading, typically combated via spatial diversity by multiple transmit and receiver antennas. Practical limitations may limit their use; thus, cooperative transmissions have been proposed to introduce diversity without the need for multiple antennas. We propose a novel cooperative scheme that performs distributed coding of user data. It needs each user transmit on one single channel and allows large flexibility between rate and diversity. A trade-off is increased complexity as more users are required to be decoded simultaneously by the base station. We present construction of the distributed code for different choices of rates and diversity orders by means of simple linear block codes, resulting in reduced complexity for decoding operations. Achieved diversity order is bounded by the minimum distance of the implemented distributed code. Performance of the scheme is studied via analytical bounds and numerical simulations. </para>