In this thesis, we study the effect of channel estimation on the performance of distributed
space-time coding (DSTC) in amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative networks. The relay based transmission takes two phase. In phase I, the source transmits a block of symbols, which include training symbols and data to destination. After receiving signals at relay, the DSTC is adopted to re-encode signals in order to achieve diversity gain at relay nodes. At destination, the signals received in two
phase are combined and used to detected data symbols. In the thesis, for AF cooperative networks, the signal received at destination is effected the multiplication of channel coefficients on the source to relay and relay to destination links. Before
detection, channel coefficients of all links need to be estimated. We propose a semiblind method to estimate the channel coefficients of direct link and the relay links. The semi-blind channel estimation scheme, exploits a small number of training symbols
and second-order statistics of received signals. To improve the detection quality, the channel estimation is modified by treating the detected symbols as extra training symbols. Through simulation, it shows that the proposed channel estimation and the modification leads to obvious performance improvement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0827110-165057 |
| Date | 27 August 2010 |
| Creators | Cheng, Jung-hui |
| Contributors | Chih-Peng Li, Wan-Jen Huang, Tsang-Yi Wang, Chao-Kai Wen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0827110-165057 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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