STTC design for vehicular communication systems employing fixed-gain AF PLNC over cascaded fading channels

ATA S. O., Altunbaş İ.

IET COMMUNICATIONS, cilt.12, sa.11, ss.1283-1289, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 12 Sayı: 11
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1049/iet-com.2017.0702
  • Dergi Adı: IET COMMUNICATIONS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1283-1289
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: vehicular ad hoc networks, network coding, space-time codes, trellis codes, Rayleigh channels, cellular radio, mixture models, gamma distribution, probability, amplify and forward communication, channel coding, vehicular communication system, STTC design, fixed-gain AF PLNC, cascaded fading channel, space-time trellis coding technique, vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, V2V communication system, double Rayleigh fading channel, DRF channel, cellular communication, fixed-gain amplify-and-forward physical layer network coding, SNR, mixture gamma distribution, pairwise error probability analysis, PEP analysis, N-ASTERISK-NAKAGAMI, TIME TRELLIS CODES, PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, MIMO, RELAY, DIVERSITY
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, the authors combine physical layer network coding (PLNC) and space-time trellis coding (STTC) techniques to improve the error performance of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems where all fading channels are assumed to undergo double Rayleigh fading (DRF) which is worse than Rayleigh fading used in cellular communications. In the authors' analysis, they show that the DRF channels can be modelled by using the mixture gamma distribution. After that, pairwise error probability (PEP) analysis is performed for a fixed-gain amplify-and-forward PLNC V2V system employing STTC over the DRF channels, and an upper bound for the PEP is obtained. By examining the behaviour of the upper bound expression in the high SNR region, they derive a new design criterion for STTCs. Finally, using this criterion they propose novel STTCs with 4 and 8 states for V2V systems employing PLNC over the DRF channels.