Delay Optimization in Cooperative Relaying with Cyclic Delay Diversity

• Cooperative relaying has recently been recognized as an alternative to MIMO in a typical multicellularenvironment. Inserting random delays at the nonregenerative fixed relays further improve the system performance.However, random delays result in limited performance gain from multipath diversity. In this paper, two promisingdelay optimization schemes are introduced for a multicellular OFDM system with cooperative relaying withstationary multiple users and fixed relays. Both of the schemes basically aim to take the most advantages ofthe potential frequency selectivity by inserting predetermined delays at the relays, in order to further improve thesystem performance (coverage and throughput). Evaluation results for different multipath fading environments showthat the system performance with delay optimization increases tremendously compared with the case of randomdelay.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Information technology

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SRA - ICT

SRA - Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

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