Single-Symbol ML Decodable Distributed STBCs for Partially-Coherent Cooperative Networks

Sreedhar, D and Chockalingam, A and Rajan, B Sundar (2009) Single-Symbol ML Decodable Distributed STBCs for Partially-Coherent Cooperative Networks. In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 06-11, Toronto, Canada, pp. 2672-2681.

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Abstract

A relay network with N relays and a single source-destination pair is called a partially-coherent relay channel (PCRC) if the destination has perfect channel state information (CSI) of all the channels and the relays have only the phase information of the source-to-relay channels. In this paper, first, a new set of necessary and sufficient conditions for a space-time block code (STBC) to be single-symbol decodable (SSD) for colocated multiple antenna communication is obtained. Then, this is extended to a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for a distributed STBC (DSTBC) to be SSD for. a PCRC. Using this, several SSD DSTBCs for PCRC are identified. It is proved that even if a SSD STBC for a co-located MIMO channel does not satisfy the additional conditions for the code to be SSD for a PCRC, single-symbol decoding of it in a PCRC gives full-diversity and only coding gain is lost. It is shown that when a DSTBC is SSD for a PCRC, then arbitrary coordinate interleaving of the in-phase and quadrature-phase components of the variables does not disturb its SSD property for PCRC. Finally, it is shown that the possibility of channel phase compensation operation at the relay nodes using partial CSI at the relays increases the possible rate of SSD DSTBCs from (2)/(N) when the relays do not have CSI to(1)/(2), which is independent of N.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Amplify-and-forward protocol;cooperative communication; distributed STBC;single-symbol decoding
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2009 08:32
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20567

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