Title
Decentralised ranging method for orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems with amplify-and-forward relays.
Abstract
In this study, a decentralised ranging method for uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems with half-duplex (HD) amplify-and-forward (AF) relay stations (RSs) is proposed. In the OFDMA systems with HD AF RSs, twice more resources and delays are required as ranging without RS. To reduce the required resources and delays for ranging, the authors propose a two-phase ranging scheme based on the decentralised timing-offset estimation at each ranging mobile station (MS). At the first phase, RS occasionally broadcasts timing reference signal, and at the second phase RS retransmits the collected ranging signals from the MSs. Then, each ranging MSs can individually estimate its own timing offset from the received signals. In the proposed ranging method, the base station does not need to send a timing-adjustment message, and the overhead associated with ranging in the downlink resources, and computational complexity can be significantly reduced without degrading the timing-offset-estimation performance. Moreover, the delay associated with ranging can be maintained as same as ranging without RS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1049/iet-com.2013.0599
IET Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile station,computational complexity,estimation theory,ofdm modulation
Base station,Mobile station,Computer network,Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access,Real-time computing,Ranging,RSS,Mathematics,Relay,Offset (computer science),Telecommunications link
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
9
1751-8628
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young-ho Jung1124.33
Sunghyun Cho2100865.94
Cheolwoo You315737.11