Abstract
The relay-assisted cooperative technique is a promising solution for guaranteeing quality of service and improvement in channel capacity. This paper proposes a hierarchical modulation based cooperative relaying method via a fixed relay station (FRS) to improve the performance of cell edge users for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems over a multi-cell environment. The grafting of both FRS and hierarchical modulation onto an OFDMA based cooperative system provides opportunities to reduce the interferences, i.e. inter-cell and inter-relay interferences, and to achieve cooperative diversity in a multi-cell environment, simultaneously. Under conditions of severe inter cell interference caused by high carrier collisions, the proposed scheme leads to an improvement in both channel capacity and bit error rate for cell boundary users.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 577-590 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Wireless Networks |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 Jul |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments This research was supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the CITRC (Convergence Information Technology Research Center) support program (NIPA-2012-H0401-12-1003) supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency). This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0011995).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Information Systems
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering