Robust Optimization for Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relaying From a Worst-Case Perspective

Title A General Robust Linear Transceiver Design for Multi-Hop Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relaying Systems

In this paper, linear transceiver design for multi-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) relaying systems with Gaussian distributed channel estimation errors is investigated. Commonly used transceiver design criteria including weighted mean-square-error (MSE) minimization, capacity maximization, worst-MSE/MAX-MSE minimization and weighted sum-rate maximization, are consid...

Overview of Amplify- and-Forward Relaying

Cooperative diversity has emerged as a promising technique to combat fading in wireless communications (Sendonaris et. al., 2003a; Sendonaris et. al., 2003b). It is based on the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and enables single-antenna users to “enjoy” space diversity benefits by sharing their physical resources through a virtual transmit and/or receive antenna array. The basic relay c...

Widely Linear Signal Processing for Two-Way Relaying with MIMO Amplify and Forward Relays

In this paper, we develop widely linear transmit strategies for two-way relaying networks with single or multiple pairs of users and a MIMO amplify and forward relay. By taking advantage of the noncircularity of the complex-valued transmitted signals, a significant performance gain is obtained over linear transmit strategies when SNR balancing or relay transmit power minimization is chosen as t...

Power Allocation for Amplify-and-Forward Opportunistic Relaying Systems

In this letter, power allocation methods are devised for Amplify-and-Forward (AF) opportunistic relaying systems aiming at minimizing the outage probability. First, we extend the result on outage probability in [8] and develop an approximate expression to simplify the power allocation problem. A corresponding optimization problem is constructed and proved to be convex. Then an iterative numeric...

Are Amplify-and-Forward Relaying and Decode-and-Forward Relaying the Same?