Cooperative Diversity for Fading Channels in the Presence of Impulsive Noise

Cooperative diversity;Impulsive noise;space time coding;power allocation;cooperation;diversity;Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aldharrab, Suhail Ibrahim

University of Waterloo

关键词: Cooperative diversity;    Impulsive noise;    space time coding;    power allocation;    cooperation;    diversity;    Electrical and Computer Engineering;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Although there already exists a rich literature on cooperative diversity, current results are mainly restricted to the conventional assumption of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). AWGN model realistically represents the thermal noise at the receiver, but ignores the impulsive nature of atmospheric noise, electromagnetic interference, or man-made noise which might be dominant in many practical applications. In this thesis, we investigate the performance of cooperative communication over Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of impulsive noise modeled by Middleton Class A noise. We consider a multi-relay network with amplify-and-forward relaying and orthogonal cooperation protocol. As for the coding across the relays, we employ either space-time coding or repetition coding. For each scheme, we assume various scenarios based on relays’ location and quantify the diversity advantages through the derivation of the pairwise error probability. Based on the minimization of a union bound on the error rate performance, we further propose optimal power allocation schemes and demonstrate significant performance gains over their counterparts with equal power allocation. We finally present an extensive Monte Carlo simulation to confirm our analytical results and corroborate on our results.