Cooperative OFDM with Amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Timing Offset

Raghunath, K and Chockalingam, A (2008) Cooperative OFDM with Amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Timing Offset. In: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 08), NOV 30-DEC 04, 2008, New Orleans, LA.

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate cooperative OFDM communications using amplify-and-forward (AF) protocol at the relays, in the presence of imperfect timing synchronization. In most studies on cooperative communications, perfect time synchronization among cooperating nodes is assumed. In practice, however, due to imperfect time synchronization, orthogonality among the subcarriers of the different nodes' signals at the destination receiver can be lost, causing inter-symbol interference (ISI). In this paper, we derive analytical expressions for the average SINR at the DFT output at the destination as a function of timing offset in cooperative OFDM with AF protocol, and illustrate the SINR degradation as a function of the timing offset. We also present an interference canceling (IC) receiver to mitigate the effects of ISI when there is timing offset. We show that the proposed IC receiver achieves improved BER performance even when timing offsets are large.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom)
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2011 06:09
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2011 06:09
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/36596

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