Robust transceiver with tomlinson-Harashima precoding for amplify-and-forward MIMO relaying systems

Chengwen Xing*, Minghua Xia, Feifei Gao, Yik Chung Wu

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Abstract

In this paper, robust transceiver design with Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) for multi-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying systems is investigated. At source node, THP is adopted to mitigate the spatial intersymbol interference. However, due to its nonlinear nature, THP is very sensitive to channel estimation errors. In order to reduce the effects of channel estimation errors, a joint Bayesian robust design of THP at source, linear forwarding matrices at relays and linear equalizer at destination is proposed. With novel applications of elegant characteristics of multiplicative convexity and matrix-monotone functions, the optimal structure of the nonlinear transceiver is first derived. Based on the derived structure, the transceiver design problem reduces to a much simpler one with only scalar variables which can be efficiently solved. Finally, the performance advantage of the proposed robust design over non-robust design is demonstrated by simulation results.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6280244
Pages (from-to)1370-1382
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume30
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Amplify-and-forward (AF)
  • Tomlinson-Harashima precoding
  • majorization theory
  • multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
  • robust design

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