Collaborative relay-based multiuser beamforming in cellular systems

  • Chen Chen*
  • , Lin Bai
  • , Da Wang
  • , Ye Jin
  • , Jinho Choi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The performance of downlink transmissions can be improved by using relays that can form a distributed virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming system. In this paper, we study a collaborative downlink transmission scheme for a cellular system which consists of a base station (BS), multiple amplify-and-forward (AF) relay nodes, and multiple users. We propose a new algorithm to determine the signal forwarding weights for both transmit power and signal phase with an objective of minimizing power consumption of the relay nodes while guaranteeing the receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at multiple users for the collaborative relay beamforming. We prove that the beamforming solution obtained by a semidefinite relaxation (SDR) technique is optimal with the proposed algorithm. Numerical results validate our theoretical analysis and demonstrate that the proposed optimal scheme can effectively reduce the power consumption of relay nodes compared with other beamforming approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2012 - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event76th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2012 - Quebec City, QC, Canada
Duration: 3 Sep 20126 Sep 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Conference

Conference76th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City, QC
Period3/09/126/09/12

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