Non-regenerative MIMO relaying with channel state information [cellular example]

This paper deals with the design of non-regenerative relays in cooperative transmission schemes. The conventional nonregenerative approach is the amplify and forward (AF) approach, where the signal received at the relay is simply amplified and retransmitted. In this paper, we propose an alternative design which maximizes the capacity for nonregenerative cooperative transmission, when channel state information is available at the relay station. Therefore, the relay units are not simple amplify and forward units, but still they are not required to demodulate or remodulate the symbols transmitted by the base station as in regenerative relaying schemes. We compare the performance so obtained with the performance for the conventional AF approach, and also with the performance of regenerative relays and direct noncooperative transmission.

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