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Downlink Performance Analysis of MIMO Relaying Networks

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In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in relay-augmented infrastructure-based networks. On the other hand, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system becomes a hot topic for it can achieve significant increases in overall system performance. This paper gives a detailed analysis of downlink performance of MIMO relaying networks, in which different channel models and classic MIMO cellular system model with fixed relay are considered. Our results in single cell scenario show that when meeting effective relay system efficiency of 100%, the required relay SNR gain of 2-antenna system can be reduced to less than half of that with only one transceiver antenna. We also observe that MIMO is more tolerant to interference compared with the one-transceiver antenna system. After that, multi-hop architecture is researched and statistics figures out the tolerable number of hops which is supported in wireless communication with a view to real application. In addition, multi-cell scenario is also studied. Statistics results show that there is more 8 dB average spectral efficiency gain in a two-hop fixed relay 4 × 4 MIMO system than that in a SISO system. These results present significant indications in deployment and optimization of relay-based MIMO networks.

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  1. Broadband Wireless Communications and Multimedia Laboratory, The Key Laboratory of Embedded System and Service Computing Supported by Ministry of Education, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China

    Ping Wang, Lijun Zu, Fuqiang Liu, Jing Han, Qing Ai, Ngoc Van Nguyen & Yiling Wang

  2. Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network & Communication, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China

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Wang, P., Zu, L., Liu, F. et al. Downlink Performance Analysis of MIMO Relaying Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 62, 729–746 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0404-6

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