A Path Selection Technique Considering Time Difference of Arrival in Two-Hop Relay Systems

Kyung-Soo WOO  Chang-Hwan PARK  Hyun-Il YOO  Jaekwon KIM  Seung-Hee HAN  Yong-Soo CHO 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E92-B  No.11  pp.3533-3536
Publication Date: 2009/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
MR,  path selection,  OFDMA,  ISI,  ICI, 

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Summary: 
In this letter, the effect of the time difference of arrival (TDoA) on synchronous types or asynchronous types of OFDMA-based multi-hop relay (MR) systems is investigated. Signal-to-interference plus noise ratios (SINRs) for downlinks and uplinks are defined to measure the degree of interference due to TDoA in asymmetric MR systems. A path selection technique based on the SINR is then proposed to determine the optimal paths for the uplink and downlink independently. It is shown that asymmetric routing can improve the performance of OFDMA-based MR systems when the proposed technique is applied to the path selection of the uplink taking into account the effect of the TDoA.