Modulation-adaptive cooperation in Rayleigh fading channels with imperfect CSI

  • Authors:
  • Yuanyuan Zhang;Yi Ma;Rahim Tafazolli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Surrey, Guildford, UK;University of Surrey, Guildford, UK;University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Adaptive modulation can improve the throughput of cooperative communications, which has been shown in previous research. So far the adaptive modulation is applied with respect to perfect transmitter side Channel State Information (CSI) in most current work. In this paper we have investigated the modulation-adaptive cooperation in Rayleigh fading channels providing imperfect CSI at senders. The adaptive modulation scheme with rate adaptation at the relay proposed in our previous work has been extended here first. Then a new adaptive modulation scheme with adaptation at both the source and relay is proposed. Simulation results show the proposed two schemes can provide significant improvement in throughput over the fixed DF relaying cooperation even with imperfect feedback; the throughput can be further improved with the proposed scheme allowing adaptive modulation at both the source and relay.