Timing Synchronization for Cooperative Communications with Detect and Forward Relaying

Authors:
Md. Tofazzal Hossain;David B. Smith;Sithamparanathan Kandeepan
Affiliations:
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and Canberra Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia;Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and Canberra Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia;Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and CREATE-NET International Research Centre, Trento, Italy
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2012

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Abstract

A non-data-aided near maximum likelihood (NDA-NML) symbol timing estimator is presented, which is applied to a cooperative communication system with a source, relay and destination. A Cramer rao bound (CRB) for the estimator for asymptotically low signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio case is derived. The timing complexity of the NDA-NML estimator is derived and compared with the correlation based data-aided maximum likelihood (DA-ML) estimator. It is demonstrated that the complexity of the NDA-NML estimator is much less than that of correlation based DA-ML estimator. The bit-error-rate (BER) performance of this system operating in a detect-and-forward (DAF) mode is studied where the channel state information (CSI) is available at the receiver and the symbol timings are estimated independently for each channel. SNR combining (SNRC) and equal ratio combining (ERC) methods are considered. It is found that timing estimation error has a significant effect on BER performance. It is also found that for large timing error the benefit of cooperative diversity could vanish. It is demonstrated that significant gains can be made with both combining methods with cooperation and timing estimation, where the gains are the same for both estimators.