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Joint power control and beamforming in MIMO relays

Joint power control and beamforming in MIMO relays Purpose – In this paper, a wireless network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, which communicate peer-to-peer with the help of multiple Amplify-and-Forward relays is considered. The purpose of this paper is to minimize the total relay transmit power subject to a sum rate threshold. Design/methodology/approach – It is shown that finding a beamforming matrix which satisfies the investigation’s goal is a non-convex optimization problem. Therefore, a semidefinite relaxation technique is used to turn it into a semidefinite programming problem. Thus, it can be effectively solved by interior point methods. Findings – Simulation results show that the total relay transmit power decreases with the number of relays. In addition, it is shown that relays’ power consumption decreases when the quality of uplink and/or downlink channels improves. In order to compare the proposed optimization algorithm to two conventional approaches, energy efficiency criterion used for performance comparison and complexity order for evaluating computational complexity. Although the proposed algorithm does not change the order of complexity, it needs a few more iterations to find the best result which leads to a double the processing time compared to existing approaches. Originality/value – In the present optimization problem, coefficient ß is used instead of a constant factor 2 in the original optimization problem. It is shown that by changing parameter ß between 1 and 2, a lower power consumption for a target sum rate can be achieved. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Emerald Publishing

Joint power control and beamforming in MIMO relays

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10.1108/COMPEL-11-2014-0309
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Purpose – In this paper, a wireless network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, which communicate peer-to-peer with the help of multiple Amplify-and-Forward relays is considered. The purpose of this paper is to minimize the total relay transmit power subject to a sum rate threshold. Design/methodology/approach – It is shown that finding a beamforming matrix which satisfies the investigation’s goal is a non-convex optimization problem. Therefore, a semidefinite relaxation technique is used to turn it into a semidefinite programming problem. Thus, it can be effectively solved by interior point methods. Findings – Simulation results show that the total relay transmit power decreases with the number of relays. In addition, it is shown that relays’ power consumption decreases when the quality of uplink and/or downlink channels improves. In order to compare the proposed optimization algorithm to two conventional approaches, energy efficiency criterion used for performance comparison and complexity order for evaluating computational complexity. Although the proposed algorithm does not change the order of complexity, it needs a few more iterations to find the best result which leads to a double the processing time compared to existing approaches. Originality/value – In the present optimization problem, coefficient ß is used instead of a constant factor 2 in the original optimization problem. It is shown that by changing parameter ß between 1 and 2, a lower power consumption for a target sum rate can be achieved.

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COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jan 4, 2016

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