Adaptive power allocation in spatially correlated dual-hop MIMO relay channels

  • Authors:
  • Ah-Young Kim;Hee-Nam Cho;Yong-Hwan Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University, Kwanak, Seoul, Korea;Seoul National University, Kwanak, Seoul, Korea;Seoul National University, Kwanak, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper considers power allocation in a spatially correlated dual-hop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay channel. In a dual-hop MIMO relay channel, it is desirable to balance the capacity of each hop channel by dynamically allocating the transmit power according to the channel condition. In fact, the end-to-end capacity of a dual-hop relay channel can be maximized by means of max-min optimization with constraint on total power. This paper considers the improvement of the end-to-end capacity by allocating the transmit power according to the average channel gain and the spatial correlation between the dual-hop MIMO relay channels. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides significant performance improvement over the power allocation based on the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).