Leveraging coherent distributed space-time codes for noncoherent communication in relay networks via training

  • Authors:
  • G. Susinder Rajan;B. Sundar Rajan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

For point to point multiple input multiple output systems, Dayal-Brehler-Varanasi have proved that training codes achieve the same diversity order as that of the underlying coherent space time block code (STBC) if a simple minimum mean squared error estimate of the channel formed using the training part is employed for coherent detection of the underlying STBC. In this letter, a similar strategy involving a combination of training, channel estimation and detection in conjunction with existing coherent distributed STBCs is proposed for noncoherent communication in Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay networks. Simulation results show that the proposed simple strategy outperforms distributed differential space-time coding for AF relay networks. Finally, the proposed strategy is extended to asynchronous relay networks using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.