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Differential Quadrature Amplitude Modulation and Relay Selection with Detect-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying

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In this paper, we consider a cooperative communication system with differential modulation and relay-selection (DM–RS) in multi-relay networks, where the best relay is selected to forward the source node’s signal to the destination node with detect-and-forward (DetF) protocol. Unlike the conventional DM–RS–DetF scheme using phase shift keying (PSK), we propose a DM–RS–DetF scheme with quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Since the differential PSK scheme cannot be applied to the QAM constellations directly, we firstly develop the modulation and demodulation methods for the differential QAM scheme. Then, we derive a closed-form approximation and an upper bound of the symbol error rate for the DQAM–RS–DetF scheme over independent Rayleigh fading channels, by using the approximated signal-to-noise ratio of the equivalent relay link. Simulations results verify the validity of the analytical results and further show that when the modulation order \(M>8\) in Rayleigh fading channels, the DQAM–RS–DetF scheme outperforms the DPSK–RS–DetF scheme.

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  1. In [16], the proposed MLC is given by Eq. (8), i.e., \({{z}_{m}}\left( n \right) \approx y_{{ SD}}^{\text{* }}\left( n-1 \right) {{y}_{{ SD}}}\left( n \right) \text{+ }\frac{{{\gamma }_{eq}}}{{{\gamma }_{{ RD}}}}y_{{ RD}}^{\text{* }}\left( n-1 \right) {{y}_{{ RD}}}\left( n \right) \). If we consider a noise free situation, combining Eqs. (1), (2) and (5) in [16], we can obtain \({{z}_{m}}\left( n \right) \approx {{\mu }_{{ SD}}}d\left( n \right) +{{\mu }_{eq}}\tilde{d}\left( n \right) \), where \({{\mu }_{{ SD}}}={{\left| {{h}_{{ SD}}} \right| }^{2}}, {{\mu }_{eq}}=\min \{ {{\left| {{h}_{{ SR}}} \right| }^{2}}, {{\left| {{h}_{{ RD}}} \right| }^{2}} \}\). This is the MLC we used in this paper.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. K50511010005), the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant 2012CB316100, the 111 project (Grant No. B08038) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61001128, 61001207, 61101144 and 61101145). The authors gratefully acknowledge the Research in Motion (RIM) Corporation of Canada for financial support.

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Appendix

In this appendix, we will calculate the MSE of the CP estimation, i.e., Eq. (20) in Sect. 3. From the definition of the MSE,

$$\begin{aligned} {{ MSE}_{ CP}}&= E\left[ {{\left| P{{\left| h \right| }^{2}}-\frac{1}{L}{\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y \right| }^{2}} \right] \nonumber \\&= {{P}^{2}}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{4}} \right] -\frac{2P}{L}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{2}}{\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y \right] +\frac{1}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left( {\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y \right) }^{2}} \right] . \end{aligned}$$
(39)

Since \(h\sim { CN}\left( 0,\sigma _{h}^{2} \right) \), we have \(E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{4}} \right] =2\sigma _{h}^{2}\). Thus, the first term in (39) can be rewritten as

$$\begin{aligned} {{P}^{2}}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{4}} \right] =2{{P}^{2}}\sigma _{h}^{2}. \end{aligned}$$
(40)

Using \(E[ {\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y ]=L{{\left| h \right| }^{2}} +L\sigma _{e}^{2}\), the second term in (39) becomes

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{2P}{L}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{2}}{\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y \right]&= \frac{2P}{L}{E_{h}}\left[ {{\left| h\right| }^{2}}{E_\mathbf{x ,\mathbf e }}\left[ {\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y \right] \right] \nonumber \\&= \frac{2P}{L}{E_{h}}\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{2}}\left( L{{\left| h \right| }^{2}} +L\sigma _{e}^{2} \right) \right] \nonumber \\&= 4{{P}^{2}}\sigma _{h}^{2}+2P\sigma _{h}^{2}\sigma _{e}^{2}. \end{aligned}$$
(41)

In addition, using (18), the third term in (39) can be expanded as

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{1}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left( {\mathbf{y }^{H}}\mathbf y \right) }^{2}} \right]&= \frac{1}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left( P{{\left| h \right| }^{2}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf x +2\sqrt{P}\mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) +{\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) }^{2}} \right] \nonumber \\&= \frac{1}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left( P{{\left| h \right| }^{2}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf x \right) }^{2}} \right] +\frac{1}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left( 2\sqrt{P}\mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) +{\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) }^{2}} \right] \nonumber \\&+\frac{2}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ P{{\left| h \right| }^{2}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf x \left( 2\sqrt{P}\mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) +{\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) \right] \nonumber \\&= \frac{{{P}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{4}} \right] E\left[ {{\left( {\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf x \right) }^{2}} \right] +\frac{4P}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ \mathfrak R {{\left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) }^{2}} \right] +\frac{1}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left( {\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) }^{2}} \right] \nonumber \\&+\frac{4\sqrt{P}}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ \mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) {\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right] +\frac{4P\sqrt{P}}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{2}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf x \mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) \right] \nonumber \\&+\frac{2P}{{{L}^{2}}}E\left[ {{\left| h \right| }^{2}} \right] E\left[ {\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf x \right] E\left[ {\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right] \nonumber \\&\triangleq {{ MSE}_{ CP1}}+{{ MSE}_{{ CP}2}}+{{ MSE}_{{ CP}3}}+{{ MSE}_{{ CP}4}}\nonumber \\&+{{ MSE}_{{ CP}5}} +{{ MSE}_{{ CP}6}}. \end{aligned}$$
(42)

Since the source symbols \({{s}_{1}},\ldots ,{{s}_{L}}\) are iid discrete random variables with \(E\left[ {{\left| {{s}_{l}} \right| }^{2}} \right] =1\), from (2) the first term in (42) can be calculated as

$$\begin{aligned} {{ MSE}_{{ CP}1}}&= \frac{{{P}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}}\times 2\sigma _{h}^{4}\times E\left[ {{\left( \sum \limits _{l=1}^{L}{{a}_{l}^2} \right) }^{2}} \right] \nonumber \\&= \frac{{{P}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}}\times 2\sigma _{h}^{4}\times \left( \sum \limits _{l=1}^{L}{E\left[ {a}_{l}^4\right] } +\sum \limits _{l=1}^{L}{\sum \limits _{k=1,k\ne l}^{L}{E\left[ {a}_{l}^2 \right] E\left[ {a}_{k}^2 \right] }}\right) \nonumber \\&= \frac{{{P}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}}\times 2\sigma _{h}^{4}\times \left[ {{L}^{2}}+L\left( {{\nu }_{a}}-1 \right) \right] \nonumber \\&= 2{{P}^{2}}\sigma _{h}^{4}+\frac{2{{P}^{2}}}{L}\left( {{\nu }_{a}}-1 \right) \sigma _{h}^{4}, \end{aligned}$$
(43)

where \({{\nu }_{a}}=E\left[ {a}_{l}^4 \right] \). Using \(\mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}}{\mathbf{x }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) =\mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}} \right) \sum \nolimits _{k=1}^{L}\mathfrak{R \left( x_{k}^{*}e \right) }+\mathfrak I \left( {{h}^{*}} \right) \sum \nolimits _{k=1}^{L}\mathfrak{I \left( x_{k}^{*}e \right) }\), the \({{{ MSE}}_{{ CP}2}}\) in (42) becomes

$$\begin{aligned} {{{ MSE}}_{{ CP}2}}&= \frac{4P}{{{L}^{2}}}\left\{ E\left[ \mathfrak R {{\left( {{h}^{*}} \right) }^{2}} \right] E\left[ \sum \limits _{k=1}^{L}\mathfrak{R {{\left( x_{k}^{*}{{e}_{k}} \right) }^{2}}} \right] +E\left[ \mathfrak I {{\left( {{h}^{*}} \right) }^{2}} \right] E\left[ \sum \limits _{k=1}^{L}\mathfrak{I {{\left( x_{k}^{*}{{e}_{k}} \right) }^{2}}} \right] \right\} \nonumber \\&= \frac{4P}{{{L}^{2}}}\times \left( \frac{1}{2}\sigma _{h}^{2}\times \frac{L}{2}\sigma _{e}^{2}+\frac{1}{2}\sigma _{h}^{2}\times \frac{L}{2}\sigma _{e}^{2} \right) \nonumber \\&= \frac{2P}{L}\sigma _{h}^{2}\sigma _{e}^{2} \end{aligned}$$
(44)

Moreover, \({\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e =\sum \nolimits _{k=1}^{L}{\left( \mathfrak R {{\left( {{e}_{k}} \right) }^{2}}+\mathfrak I {{\left( {{e}_{k}} \right) }^{2}} \right) }\) confines the central Chi-square distribution with \(2L\) degrees of freedom, then \(E\left[ {{\left( {\mathbf{e }^{H}}\mathbf e \right) }^{2}} \right] =\left( L+{{L}^{2}} \right) \sigma _{e}^{4}\). Thus, the \({{MSE}_{CP3}}\) in (42) can be obtained as

$$\begin{aligned} { MSE}_{{ CP}3}=\left( \frac{1}{L}+1 \right) \sigma _{e}^{4}. \end{aligned}$$
(45)

Since \(E\left[ \mathfrak R \left( {{h}^{*}} \right) \right] =E\left[ \mathfrak I \left( {{h}^{*}} \right) \right] =0\), the \({ MSE}_{{ CP}4}\) and \({ MSE}_{CP5}\) are equal to zero. In addition, the \({{{ MSE}}_{{ CP}6}}\) in (42) can be calculated as

$$\begin{aligned} {{{ MSE}}_{{ CP}6}}=2P\sigma _{h}^{2}\sigma _{e}^{2}. \end{aligned}$$
(46)

Substituting (43)–(46) into (42), the MSE of the CP estimation can be obtained as

$$\begin{aligned} {{{ MSE}}_{{ CP}}}=\frac{2{{P}^{2}}}{L}\sigma _{h}^{2}\left( {{\nu }_{a}}-1 \right) +\frac{2P}{L}\sigma _{h}^{2}\sigma _{e}^{2}+\left( \frac{1}{L}+1 \right) \sigma _{e}^{4}. \end{aligned}$$
(47)

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Gao, Y., Ge, J. & Cong, W. Differential Quadrature Amplitude Modulation and Relay Selection with Detect-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying. Wireless Pers Commun 72, 1399–1414 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1085-0

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