A Dual-Hop Virtual MIMO Architecture Based on Hybrid Differential Spatial Modulation

In this paper, we propose a novel virtual multi-input-multi-output (VMIMO) architecture to convey information from the source node (SN) to the destination node (DN) via multiple relay nodes (RNs). As it is built on dual-hop networks with differential spatial modulation (DSM), we call it dual-hop hybrid DSM (DH-HDSM). In order to harvest the diversity provided by the SN and reduce the complexity at the RNs, DH-HDSM forms a precoding aided DSM pattern in the first hop and applies incoherent detection in a centralized or distributed manner at the RNs. Based on the decode-and-forward protocol, DSM transmission is carried out in the second hop and achieves high energy efficiency via statistical single RN activation at any time instant. We analyze the performance of DH-HDSM in terms of the average bit error probability and make comparisons with dual-hop hybrid spatial modulation (DH-HSM) and differential VMIMO systems with either a single relay or best relay selection. Theoretical results and Monte Carlo simulations confirm that DH-HDSM outperforms DH-HSM and other differential relay schemes in terms of error performance when the DN is equipped with multiple antennas.

[1]  Yue Xiao,et al.  Detect-and-Forward Relaying Aided Cooperative Spatial Modulation for Wireless Networks , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[2]  Robert W. Heath,et al.  Transmit selection in spatial multiplexing systems , 2002, IEEE Communications Letters.

[3]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Wideband Channel Modeling and Intercarrier Interference Cancellation for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Systems , 2013, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[4]  Harald Haas,et al.  Distributed space shift keying for the uplink of relay-aided cellular networks , 2012, 2012 IEEE 17th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD).

[5]  A. Lee Swindlehurst,et al.  A vector-perturbation technique for near-capacity multiantenna multiuser communication-part I: channel inversion and regularization , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[6]  Harald Haas,et al.  Dual-Hop Spatial Modulation (Dh-SM) , 2011, 2011 IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring).

[7]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Differential spatial modulated OFDM in underwater acoustic communications , 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC).

[8]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Use of SSK Modulation in Two-Way Amplify-and-Forward Relaying , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[9]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Envelope Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of Nonisotropic Vehicle-to-Vehicle Ricean Fading Channels , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

[10]  Harald Haas,et al.  Distributed Spatial Modulation for Relay Networks , 2013, 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).

[11]  Bertrand M. Hochwald,et al.  Space-Time Multiple Access: Linear Growth in the Sum Rate , 2002 .

[12]  Harald Haas,et al.  An energy saving base station employing spatial modulation , 2012, 2012 IEEE 17th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD).

[13]  Harald Haas,et al.  Channel estimation for spatial modulation , 2013, 2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).

[14]  Yuli Yang,et al.  Information-Guided Transmission in Decode-and-Forward Relaying Systems: Spatial Exploitation and Throughput Enhancement , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[15]  Harald Haas,et al.  Distributed Spatial Modulation: A Cooperative Diversity Protocol for Half-Duplex Relay-Aided Wireless Networks , 2016, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[16]  Mohsen Guizani,et al.  5G wireless backhaul networks: challenges and research advances , 2014, IEEE Network.

[17]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Performance Analysis of Differential Spatial Modulation with Two Transmit Antennas , 2014, IEEE Communications Letters.

[18]  Lie-Liang Yang,et al.  Transmitter Preprocessing Aided Spatial Modulation for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems , 2011, 2011 IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring).

[19]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Differential spatial modulation in V2X , 2015, 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).

[20]  Harald Haas,et al.  Space Shift Keying (SSK—) MIMO with Practical Channel Estimates , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[21]  Ali Ghrayeb,et al.  Space shift keying modulation for MIMO channels , 2009, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[22]  Cheng-Xiang Wang,et al.  Capacity Analysis of a Multi-Cell Multi-Antenna Cooperative Cellular Network with Co-Channel Interference , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[23]  Cheng-Xiang Wang,et al.  Practical Implementation of Spatial Modulation , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[24]  Jim Esch.  Spatial Modulation for Generalized MIMO: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implementation , 2014, Proc. IEEE.

[25]  Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam,et al.  End-to-end BER analysis of space shift keying in decode-and-forward cooperative relaying , 2013, 2013 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

[26]  Harald Haas,et al.  Bit Error Probability of SM-MIMO Over Generalized Fading Channels , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[27]  Cheng-Xiang Wang,et al.  Performance of Spatial Modulation Using Measured Real-World Channels , 2013, 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).

[28]  Sudharman K. Jayaweera,et al.  V-BLAST-Based Virtual MIMO for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[29]  Raed Mesleh,et al.  Performance Analysis of Space Shift Keying with Amplify and Forward Relaying , 2011, IEEE Communications Letters.

[30]  Harald Haas,et al.  Fractional bit encoded spatial modulation (FBE-SM) , 2010, IEEE Communications Letters.

[31]  Cheng-Xiang Wang,et al.  Capacity of Hybrid Cognitive Radio Networks With Distributed VAAs , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[32]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Differential Spatial Modulation , 2015, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[33]  Harald Haas,et al.  A Virtual MIMO Dual-Hop Architecture Based on Hybrid Spatial Modulation , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[34]  Wenbo Wang,et al.  Spatial modulation in two-way network coded channels: Performance and mapping optimization , 2012, 2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - (PIMRC).

[35]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Communicating in the real world: 3D MIMO , 2014, IEEE Wireless Communications.

[36]  Mohamed-Slim Alouini,et al.  Digital Communication Over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis , 2000 .

[37]  Harald Haas,et al.  Performance Analysis of Multistream Receive Spatial Modulation in the MIMO Broadcast Channel , 2016, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[38]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Pre-Coding Aided Differential Spatial Modulation , 2014, 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).

[39]  Mohamed-Slim Alouini,et al.  Digital Communication over Fading Channels: Simon/Digital Communications 2e , 2004 .

[40]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  Differential spatial modulation for dual-hop amplify-and-forward relaying , 2015, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

[41]  N. Balakrishnan,et al.  Continuous Bivariate Distributions , 2009 .

[42]  Harald Haas,et al.  On the Achievable Performance-Complexity Tradeoffs of Relay-Aided Space Shift Keying , 2015, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.

[43]  Harald Haas,et al.  Energy Evaluation of Spatial Modulation at a Multi-Antenna Base Station , 2013, 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).

[44]  Xiang Cheng,et al.  A Low-Complexity Near-ML Differential Spatial Modulation Detector , 2015, IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

[45]  Harald Haas,et al.  Distributed Spatially-Modulated Space-Time-Block-Codes , 2013, 2013 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD).

[46]  Aitor del Coso,et al.  Cooperative distributed MIMO channels in wireless sensor networks , 2007, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[47]  I. S. Gradshteyn,et al.  Table of Integrals, Series, and Products , 1976 .

[48]  Lie-Liang Yang,et al.  Generalised Pre-Coding Aided Spatial Modulation , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.