On the performance of dual-hop systems with multiple antennas: Effects of spatial correlation, keyhole, and co-channel interference

Liang Yang*, Mohamed Slim Alouini, Khalid Qaraqe, Weiping Liu

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Abstract

In this paper, taking into account realistic propagation conditions, namely, spatial correlation, keyhole channels, and unequal-power co-channel interference, we investigate the performance of a wireless relay network where all the nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. Considering channel state information assisted amplify-and-forward protocol, we present analytical expressions for the symbol error rate (SER) and outage probability. More specifically, we first derive the SER expressions of a relay system with orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC) over correlated/keyhole fading channels. We also analyze the outage probability of interference corrupted relay systems with maximal ratio combing (MRC) at the receiver as well as multiple-input multiple-output MRC (MIMO MRC). Numerical results are given to illustrate and verify the analytical results.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6291700
Pages (from-to)3541-3547
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume60
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • AF
  • co-channel interference
  • keyhole
  • relay channels
  • spatially correlated channels

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