Performance of MIMO Relay DCSK-CD Systems over Nakagami Fading Channels

TL;DR

This paper introduces a MIMO relay DCSK-CD system that enhances wireless communication robustness over Nakagami fading channels, providing analytical BER expressions and demonstrating superior performance over traditional systems.

Contribution

It proposes a novel MIMO relay DCSK-CD system with analytical BER expressions, showing improved performance and energy efficiency for low-power wireless networks.

Findings

BER performance significantly better than conventional systems

Derived exact and approximate BER expressions over Nakagami channels

Trade-off analysis between performance and complexity

Abstract

A multi-access multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay differential chaos shift keying cooperative diversity (DCSK-CD) system is proposed in this paper as a comprehensive cooperation scheme, in which the relay and destination both employ multiple antennas to strengthen the robustness against signal fading in a wireless network. It is shown that, with spatial diversity gains, the bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed system is remarkably better than the conventional DCSK non-cooperation (DCSK-NC) and DCSK cooperative communication (DCSK-CC) systems. Moreover, the exact BER and close-form expressions of the proposed system are derived over Nakagami fading channels through the moment generating function (MGF), which is shown to be highly consistent with the simulation results. Meanwhile, this paper illustrates a trade-off between the performance and the complexity, and provides a threshold for the number of relay antennas keeping the user consumed energy constant. Due to the above-mentioned advantages, the proposed system stands out as a good candidate or alternative for energy-constrained wireless communications based on chaotic modulation, especially for low-power and low-cost wireless personal area networks (WPANs).