Dual-Hop UWB Transmissions Using a Multiple-Antenna Relay with Antenna Selection versus Single-Antenna Relay Selection

Conference: SCC'10 - 8th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding
01/18/2010 - 01/21/2010 at Siegen, Germany

Proceedings: SCC'10

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Maichalernnukul, Kiattisak; Zheng, Feng; Kaiser, Thomas (Institute of Communications Technology, University of Hannover, Appelstrasse 9A, 30167 Hannover, Germany)

Abstract:
We introduce dual-hop ultra-wideband (UWB) relay systems using a multiple-antenna relay with antenna selection and the ones using single-antenna relay selection. In particular, amplify-and-forward (AF) and detect-and-forward (DTF) relaying schemes are considered for these systems. To study and compare the system performance, the exact formulae for the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) outage probabilities of the systems are derived. Numerical results show that the AF and DTF systems using the multiple-antenna relay with antenna selection outperform those using the single-antenna relay selection, respectively.