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Performance Analysis of Distributed-Antenna Communication Systems Using Beam-Hopping Under Strong Directional Interference

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In order to efficiently mitigate the interference of directional jammers, we investigate a beam-hopping (BH) communication scheme, which includes slow beam-hopping (SBH) and fast beam-hopping (FBH) schemes. In the BH communication scheme, only one pair of the beams is used for transmission and it hops from one to the next according to an assigned BH pattern. In this contribution, a range of expressions in terms of the symbol error rate (SER) performance of the BH and conventional single-beam (SB) schemes have been derived, when both the downlink and uplink are considered. The SER performance of the BH scheme is compared with that of the SB scheme, for M-ary phase-shift keying (MPSK) and M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) signals under composite log normal shadowing/Nakagami-m fading channels. Our analysis and results show that the proposed BH scheme is suitable for communications, when several distributed antenna arrays are available around a mobile.

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Honglin Hu received his Ph.D in Communications and Information System from the University of Science and Technology of China, 2004. Currently he is with Future Radio, Siemens AG Communications in Munich, Germany. In Siemens, he makes researches mainly on SDMA and OFDM techniques, also on the cross-layer design and optimization for future wireless communication systems. Dr. Hu is a member of IEEE.

Jinkang Zhu is a professor of Department of Electronic Engineering & Information Science of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Now he is director of Personal Communication Network and Spread Spectrum Lab. of USTC, Chair of the Academic Committee of School of Information Science & Technology of USTC, Vice-Chair of the Academic Committee of USTC.

He was Permanent V-President of School of Information Science & Technology of USTC, Chairman of PCN Experts Group of Communication Project of National R&D on High-Technology Programme of China, Member of Information Technology Expert Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member (Representation of China Mainland) of Technical Forum on Wireless Communications of Asia Pacific Region, Member of Technical Advisory Committee of IEEE VTC’99 Fall, Member of Technical Program Committee of IEEE VTC’2000, Member of Technical Program Committee of SCI’2001.

His research area is Wireless and Mobile Communications, CDMA and Spread Spectrum Communications, Signal Process of Communications, and Wireless Networks. He got two awards of Ministry of Science & Technology of China, three awards of Chinese Academy of Science. He published five books and 100 papers, where synchronous CDMA method proposed is used in TD-SCDMA Standard of 3G as basic technology.

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Hu, H., Zhu, J. Performance Analysis of Distributed-Antenna Communication Systems Using Beam-Hopping Under Strong Directional Interference. Wireless Pers Commun 32, 89–105 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-2379-7

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