2014/05/31 by Guangxu Zhu, Caijun Zhong, Zhu, Guangxu +9
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Full-Duplex Wireless Communications #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Wireless Communication Security Techniques #cs.IT #math.IT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1406.0049
Accepted, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2014
arxiv created 2014/05/31 · openalex publication_date 2014/05/31 · arxiv updated 2014/06/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we analyze the ergodic capacity of a dual-hop amplify-and-forward relaying system where the relay is equipped with multiple antennas and subject to co-channel interference (CCI) and the additive white Gaussian noise. Specifically, we consider three heuristic precoding schemes, where the relay first applies the 1) maximal-ratio combining (MRC) 2) zero-forcing (ZF) 3) minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) principle to combine the signal from the source, and then steers the transformed signal towards the destination with the maximum ratio transmission (MRT) technique. For the MRC/MRT and MMSE/MRT schemes, we present new tight analytical upper and lower bounds for the ergodic capacity, while for the ZF/MRT scheme, we derive a new exact analytical ergodic capacity expression. Moreover, we make a comparison among all the three schemes, and our results reveal that, in terms of the ergodic capacity performance, the MMSE/MRT scheme always has the best performance and the ZF/MRT scheme is slightly inferior, while the MRC/MRT scheme is always the worst one. Finally, the asymptotic behavior of ergodic capacity for the three proposed schemes are characterized in large N scenario, where N is the number of relay antennas. Our results reveal that, in the large N regime, both the ZF/MRT and MMSE/MRT schemes have perfect interference cancelation capability, which is not possible with the MRC/MRT scheme.