In this thesis, we investigate the problem of channel estimation in the amplify-and-forward cooperative communication systems when the networks could be in the presence of selfish relays. The information received at the destination will be detected and then used to estimate the channel. In previous studies, the relays will deliver the information under the prerequisite for cooperation and the destination
can receive the information sent from the source without any possible selfish relay. Therefore, the channel will be estimated under this over idealistic assumption. Unfortunately, the assumption does not make sense in real applications. Currently, we
don¡¦t have a mechanism to guarantee the relays will always be cooperative. The performance of channel estimation will be significantly degraded when the selfish relays present in the network. Therefore, this thesis considers an amplify-and-forward cooperative communication system with direct transmission and proposes a detection mechanism to overcome the misbehaving relay problem. The detection mechanism
employed estimation is based on likelihood ratio test using both direct transmission and relayed information. The detection result will then be used to reconstruct the codeword used for estimating product channel gain of the source-to-relay and relay-
to-destination links. The mathematical derivation for the considered problem is developed and numerical simulations for illustration is also carried out in the thesis. The numerical simulation results verify that the proposed method is indeed able to achieve robust channel estimation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0717112-152207 |
| Date | 17 July 2012 |
| Creators | Chou, Po-Yen |
| Contributors | Wan-Jen Huang, Fan-Shuo Tseng, Yu-Chao Tang, Tsang-Yi Wang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0717112-152207 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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