Performance improvement of mimo mc cdma system using relay and itbf

Performance Improvement of MIMO MC- CDMA
System Using Relay and ITBF
S. Lenin1
and N. Tamilarasan2
1
Sathyabama University, Old Mahabalipuram Rd, Kamaraj Nagar,
Jeppiaar Nagar, Chennai – 600119, Tamil Nadu, India;
lenin.ram@gmail.com
2
Sri Indu Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sheriguda, R.R. Dist, Ibrahimpatnam – 501510, Telengana, India;
neithalarasu@gmail.com
Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 12(10), DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i10/142027, March 2019
ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846
ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645
*Author for correspondence
Abstract
Objective: In the wireless communication the Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) is a major barrier caused by multipath fading
which has a strong negative impact on Bit Error Rate (BER) and affects the high speed data transmission over the wireless
channel. Methods: The equalization and channel estimation techniques are available at the receiver (Rx) to reduce the ISI
when the channel is affected by multipath propagation effect. Further to decrease the influence of ISI or to improve the
quality of the channel condition from the transmitter (Tx), it is reliable to use Relay with Beam-Form (BF) technique be-
cause ISI is related to a channel’s spatial property. It is natural to expect BF techniques which are often deployed in Multiple
Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems that help to enhance the performance of the system. Findings: In this model, the
half duplex Relaying is provided with MIMO antennas with the Amplify and Forward (AF) Relaying protocol. To reduce the
ISI and error rate, this study proposes Improved Transmit Beam-Form (ITBF) with equalizationandRelay to be employed
with MIMO Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system. Application: Simulation result depicts the
proposed system with ITBF and Relaying is highly reliable to achieve high speed data transmission.
1. Introduction
The quality of a wireless link is determined by the data
rate, transmission range and transmission reliability.
These parameters depend on large-scale fading, small-
scale fading, interference from other users/system and
the user mobility in the network leading to distortion of
signal due to excessive multipath delay causing ISI. This
results in bit error at the Rx making realization of high
data rate, high capacity and high quality a challenging
task1
.
This ISI can be overcome by Multiple Input Multiple
Output (MIMO) with beam forming and multicarrier
modulation. The MIMO antenna at both the ends of a
wireless link results in high data rates through spatial
multiplexing and increases the spectral efficiency of the
system in rich fading and multipath propagation envi-
ronment by providing spatial diversity. In addition, the
MIMO antenna system increases the capacity linearly
with the number of transmits-receive antenna pairs
without increasing bandwidth and transmitted power.
Similarly Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
(OFDM) enables the maximum use of the available band-
width by designing sub carrier orthogonal to each other.
Moreover both of these two techniques are not satisfac-
tory for fast fading environment. To improve the wireless
communication quality, the spread spectrum, OFDM and
MIMO are combined together which would work on the
fast fading environments with reasonable computation
complexity.
Further to reduce the influence of ISI and to enhance
the system performance in terms of signal to noise ratio,
Keywords: Equalization and Improved Transmit Beam-Form (ITBF), Inter Symbol Interference (ISI), Multi-Carrier Code
Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA), Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), Relay

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the Tx is provided with BF in which the antenna patterns
or beam can be made towards the desired direction or
to suppress the signals in other directions attracting to
reduce the effect of interference. Transmit BF is interest-
ing because of its simple design in exploiting the benefits
of multiple transmit antennas. The essential requirements
for the transmit BF is the multiple antennas at the Tx, and
the use of the measured channel condition between the
Tx and the Rx.
Different BF schemes are discussed in literature2-4
.
The distributed BF scheme is discussed5
in which single
antenna is used in Tx, the Rx and the Relay nodes. As a
result, these schemes do not benefit from the spatial pro-
cessing at the nodes. Optimal BF design with the Total
Power Constraint (TPC) has been studied for MIMO
and OFDM however TPC may not be practically appro-
priate from the high-power amplifier design perspective
since the powers allocated to different antennas may vary
considerably over time6
. In7,8
the author discussed the
transmit BF for MIMO-OFDM with MRC Rx and par-
tial channel feedback information. In this instantaneous
since feedback is considered it does not track the rapid
fluctuations of the signal. ICI/ISI aware BF and Non-
iterative symbol wise BF for reducing the influence of ISI
in MIMO-OFDM system is discussed in9,10
. Many feed-
back schemes that dynamically adopt to the distribution
of channel are discussed but these methods are compli-
cated to implement in practice.
Moreover to suppress the fading in wireless networks
the Relaying techniques are used to overcome the cov-
erage limitations, cost of increasing the number of base
stations and more power requirements at the mobile
stations for communicating in longer distances at high
speed11-13
. Many different Relay transmission strategies
have been developed14-16
. Relays can be either full-duplex
or half-duplex; full-duplex Relays can transmit and
receive at the same time interval while half-duplex Relays
cannot. Because full-duplex relays are difficult to imple-
ment, practical systems focus on half-duplex Relays17,18
.
Relays are also classified by how they process the received
signal; the most popular Relaying techniques are Decode-
and- Forward (DF) and Amplify- and -Forward (AF). DF
Relays have higher computational complexity due to the
requirement of decoding the signals and are helpful only
if they can decode successfully the signals. Compared
to DF Relays, AF Relays have the advantage of simple
signal processing and end-to-end transparency of data
transmission, so it can be used flexibly in heterogeneous
networks that contain many nodes with different standard
or complexity. The system model and the proposed ITBF
is discussed in section 2 and 3 respectively. The simula-
tion result for various MIMO antenna configuration and
subcarrier (SC) is discussed in Section 4 and Section 5
which summarizes the conclusion of the work.
2. System Model
MIMO MC-CDMA system with Relay and ITBF is shown
in Figure 1 where the Rx and Relay node receive the sig-
nal through Tx. The Tx, Rx and Relay nodes are provided
with Ns
, Nd
and Nr
antennas respectively. To avoid the
interference between direct path and Relay links, the
communication process requires two time slots. Once
the signal is modulated by NC
SCs, N n Nb
n
c
( )
, ,.....,=1 as
the number of symbols in the nth
SCs is transmitted to the
Relay as well as to the Rx in the 1st time slot. The Relay
node retransmits the amplified version of the signal to the
Rx in the 2ndtime slot.
Figure 2 shows the Tx structure of MIMO MC CDMA
system comprising of channel equalization, channel esti-
mation, ITBF and Relay In the Tx the data stream is
multiplied by a spreading sequence after modulation and
the pilot signals are added for estimating channel status
in the Rx. At the end,the signals are beam formed and
directed to both the Relay and Rx through multiple anten-
nas. In Figure 3, the received signal is demodulated using
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and the pilot symbols are
used for obtaining transfer function of the channel which
in turn is used for equalization and beamforming. With
the knowledge of estimated channel, data symbols are
recovered at the Rx.
Figure 1. Three node AF relay.

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3. ITBF and Relay
Even though Channel estimation based on equalization
is employed in the Rx to tackle the effect of multipath
and reduce ISI, it is better to BF the signals from the
Tx antennas based on Channel State Information (CSI)
to further improve the quality of the received signal. In
this work, ITBF technique is proposed, which utilize the
CSI details obtained from the modified channel estima-
tion algorithms. In the proposed ITBF technique, BF is
dynamically carried out i.e. the rate at which the BF vec-
tors are updated matches with the rate at which channel
varies. Hence it is ensured, the moment there is a change
in CSI, and change in BF vector is invoked. The logic
used in ITBF is depicted in the flowchart is shown in
Figure 4.
This model consists of a Relay with two antenna,
source node with NT
transmitting antenna and destination
with NR
receiving antenna. The transmission is organized
in two time slots. The Tx transmits a data packet which is
received by the Rx and Relay in the 1sttime slot. Similarly
the Relay amplifies and retransmits the signal to the Rx
in the 2nd time slot. At the Rx, the packets received
during the 1st and 2nd time slots are combined, processed
and detected.
The discrete time Channel Impulse Responses (CIR)
between the Tx and Relay node gi
[k], 0 ≤ k ≤ Lg
-1,
between Relay node and the Rx, hi[k], 0 ≤ k ≤ Lh
-1,
and between the Tx and Rxfi
[k], 0 ≤ k ≤ Lf
-1, contains the
combined effect of transmit pulse shaping, the continu-
ous time channel, receive filtering and sampling. Here Lg
,
Lh
and Lf
denotes the length of the Tx-Relay, the Relay-Rx,
and the Tx-Rx channels respectively.
In the first interval a signal x єC with power P =
E{[x]2
} is sent from the Txthrough flat fading channel gi
the channel element in gi
are independent Rayleigh fading
distributed with variance σ2
. The signal received by the
Relay nodewith Additive white Gaussian noise n[k] can
be expressed as:
y k g x k n ki
i
N
i
T
[ ]= [ ] [ ]+ [ ]
=
∑1
k * ;
During the 2nd time interval the signal transmitted by
the ith
Relay antenna can be expressed as:
t k W k y k
W k g k x k W k n k
i
i
i i
i i i
( )= [ ] [ ]
= [ ] [ ] [ ]+ [ ] [
=
∑1
2
*
* * *
;
]]=∑i 1
2
Where Wi
[k] beam form matrix of MIMO AF Relay
3.1 Equalization at Destination Node
During the 1st time slot the signal received by the Rx
is given by:
d k f k x k n k
i
N
i
T
1
1
0( )= [ ] [ ]+ [ ]
=
∑ * ;
Figure 2. Tx structure of MIMO MC-CDMA.
Figure 3. Rx structure of MIMO MC CDMA.
Figure 4. Flowchart of ITBF.

During the 2nd transmission time slot the signal
received at the Rx is given by:
d k k t k n k
k W k g k x k
i
i
i
i i
2
1
2
1
1
2
( )= [ ] ( )+ [ ]
= [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
=
=
∑
∑
h *
h * * *
i
i
h * *n *
* *n *
i+ [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
= [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
=
∑i
i
eq
k W k k n k
h k x k k n k
1
2
1
1
h k W k g keq
i
i i= [ ] [ ] [ ]
=
∑1
2
h * *i
Where n0
[k] and n1
[k] is AWGN noise with variance? sn
2
3.2 Feedback Channel
We assume that the Rx estimates the Relay-Rx CIRs hi
[k],
0 ≤ k ≤ Lh
, 1 < i ≤ 2 and the Tx-Rx CIR fi
[k], 0 ≤ k ≤ Lf
-1
during training phase. The Rx directly estimates the
combined CIR of the source-Relay and Relay-Rx channels
hi
[k]*gi
[k] if the Relay node retransmits the training
signal received from the Tx. The Rx can extract gi
[k] from
hi
[k]*gi
[k] and hi
[k] via de-convolution.
4. Result and Discussion
The proposed system of MIMO MC-CDMA with Relay
and ITBF are simulated in MATLAB with the parameters
given in Table 1 and BER is calculated by varying energy
per bits to spectral noise density (Eb
/No
). Figure 5 shows
the BER performance of the MIMO-MC CDMA using 64
SCs with 2 x 1 x 2 and 2 x 2 x 2 MIMO antennas configu-
ration. From the result it is clear that the BER is reduced
by improving gain in the desired direction and rejects
interference using relay with ITBF. Further the simula-
tion is repeated by increasing the SCs(128SCs) and the
results aredisplayed in Figure 6 in which the performance
is improved due to frequency diversity and space diversity
offered by the relays.
The performance of 4 x 4 antennas configuration
for 64 SCs and 128 SCs are shown in Figure 7 and 8
respectively and it is observed that the performance of
the system is increased due to antenna diversity and
frequency diversity. More detailed reports are shown in
Table 2, where Eb/No requirement for a target BER of 10-3
is given for various antenna configurations, SC, Relays
and ITBF. From Table 2 it is quite clear, as Relay antenna
Table 1. Simulation parameters
Spreading Codes Walsh Hadamard code
Number of SCs 64/128
Channel Rayleigh fading
Modulation 16 QAM
Antennas configuration 2x2/4x4
Equalization/Estimation MMSE/Pilot
Figure 5. Simulation result of MIMO MC CDMA with
relay and ITBF (2x2, 64 SCs).

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is increased from 1 to 2, approximately 1 to 2.5 dB less
Eb
/No
is required to maintain a target BER of 10-3
.
This due to the space diversity offered by Relays. Also, it
can be noted as SC increases from 64 to 128 approxi-
mately 2 to 3 dB less Eb
/No
is required for the target BER
of 10-3
and this is due to the frequency diversity offered
by SCs.
For example in Table 2 Relay with two antennas
Eb
/No
decreases by 1.3 dB then the Relay with single
antenna at the target BER of 10-3
due to space diver-
sity. Similarly Relay (2 antenna) with BF reduces
Eb
/No
by 1.3 dB compared to Relay with single antenna.
From Table 2 it is also observed that performance can
also progress by increasing the frequency diversity and
antenna diversity. With antenna configuration of 2x2,
the increasing SC from 64 to 128 the Eb
/No
requirement
is reduced by 2.5 dB increasing the SC from 64 to 128.
Similarly for 64 SC the increasing antenna configura-
tion from 2x2 to 4x4 the Eb
/No
requirement is reduced
by 4.1dB.
5. Conclusion
This study discusses about ITBF and Relays in the
MIMO MC-CDMA with different SCs to improve the
quality of wireless link. The performance of the system
from Tx side is improved by ITBF using narrow beam
directed towards the desired direction, and channel
quality of the wireless link is increased by AF Relay
node between the Tx and the Rx. The result shows after
incorporating Relay in MIMO MC-CDMA system, the
Eb
/No
requirement decreases by 47% (approximately)
with increasing antenna configuration from 2x2 to 4x4
for 128 SC. Further Eb
/No
is decreased using BF by sup-
pressing the interference from other channel. It can also
be inferred that the increase in number of antennas in
the Tx and RX, increases in the number of SCs and the
Relay improves the BER performance due to the diver-
sity and multiplexing gain.
Table 2. Performance of MIMO MC CDMA system at the target BER of 10-3 byantenna configuration
Antenna configuration/SCs Relay Relay with ITBF
1 AntennaEb
/No
(dB) 2 Antenna Eb
/No
(dB) 1 Antenna Eb
/No
(dB) 2 Antenna Eb
/No
(dB)
2x2/64 SCs 14.3 13(1.3↓) 13(1.3↓) 11.1(1.9↓)
2x2/128 SCs 11.8 10.5(1.3↓) 10.6(1.2↓) 8.6(1.9↓)
4x4/64 SCs 10.2 9.2(1↓) 8(2.2↓) 7.2(2↓)
4x4/128 SCs 8 6.2(1.8↓) 6(2↓) 3.8(2.4↓)

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