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Main Authors: Domanovitz, Elad, Erez, Uri
Format: Preprint
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09321
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author Domanovitz, Elad
Erez, Uri
author_facet Domanovitz, Elad
Erez, Uri
contents A simple method is proposed for use in a scenario involving a single-antenna source node communicating with a destination node that is equipped with two antennas via multiple single-antenna relay nodes, where each relay is subject to an individual power constraint. Furthermore, ultra-reliable and low-latency communication are desired. The latter requirement translates to considering only schemes that make use of local channel state information. Whereas for a receiver equipped with a single antenna, distributed beamforming is a well known and adequate solution, no straightforward extension is known. In this paper, a scheme is proposed based on a space-time diversity transformation that is applied as a front-end operation at the destination node. This results in an effective unitary channel matrix replacing the scalar coefficient corresponding to each user. Each relay node then inverts its associated channel matrix, which is the generalization of undoing the channel phase in the classical case of distributed beamforming to a single-antenna receiver, and then repeats the message over the resulting "gain-only" channel. In comparison to a single-antenna destination node, the method doubles the diversity order without requiring any channel state information at the receiver while at the same time retaining the array gain offered by the relays.
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spellingShingle A Simple Receive Diversity Technique for Distributed Beamforming
Domanovitz, Elad
Erez, Uri
Information Theory
A simple method is proposed for use in a scenario involving a single-antenna source node communicating with a destination node that is equipped with two antennas via multiple single-antenna relay nodes, where each relay is subject to an individual power constraint. Furthermore, ultra-reliable and low-latency communication are desired. The latter requirement translates to considering only schemes that make use of local channel state information. Whereas for a receiver equipped with a single antenna, distributed beamforming is a well known and adequate solution, no straightforward extension is known. In this paper, a scheme is proposed based on a space-time diversity transformation that is applied as a front-end operation at the destination node. This results in an effective unitary channel matrix replacing the scalar coefficient corresponding to each user. Each relay node then inverts its associated channel matrix, which is the generalization of undoing the channel phase in the classical case of distributed beamforming to a single-antenna receiver, and then repeats the message over the resulting "gain-only" channel. In comparison to a single-antenna destination node, the method doubles the diversity order without requiring any channel state information at the receiver while at the same time retaining the array gain offered by the relays.
title A Simple Receive Diversity Technique for Distributed Beamforming
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09321