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Performance Analysis of Differential Beamforming in Decentralized Networks
Abstract
This paper proposes and analyzes a novel differential distributed beamforming strategy for decentralized two-way relay networks. In our strategy, the phases of the received signals at all relays are synchronized without requiring channel feedback or training symbols. Bit error rate (BER) expressions of the proposed strategy are provided for coherent and differential M-PSK modulation. Upper bounds, lower bounds, and simple approximations of the BER are also derived. Based on the theoretical and simulated BER performance, the proposed strategy offers a high system performance and low decoding complexity and delay without requiring channel state information at any transmitting or receiving antenna. Furthermore, the simple approximation of the BER upper bound shows that the proposed strategy enjoys the full diversity gain which is equal to the number of transmitting antennas- info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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- Wireless communications, Digital signal processing, Wireless communication networks, communication systems
- MIMO systems, Cooperative communications, Distributed beamforming, two-way wireless relay networks, Distributed space-time coding, Differential distributed space-time coding, Cooperative diversity techniques