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Cooperative Communications over Flat Fading Channels with Carrier Offsets: A Double-Differential Modulation Approach
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2008, Article number: 531786 (2008)
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We propose double-differential (DD) modulation for the amplify-and-forward protocol over Nakagami-
fading channels with carrier offsets. We propose an emulated maximum ratio combining (EMRC) decoder, which could be used by the double-differential receiver in the absence of exact channel knowledge. Approximate bit error rate (BER) analysis is performed for the proposed double-differential modulation-based cooperative communication system. The proposed double-differential system is immune to random carrier offsets, whereas the conventional single-differential modulation-based cooperative system breaks down. In addition, the proposed scheme is able to perform better than the same rate training-based cooperative system which utilizes training data for finding estimates of carrier offsets and channel gains.
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Bhatnagar, M.R., Hjørungnes, A. & Song, L. Cooperative Communications over Flat Fading Channels with Carrier Offsets: A Double-Differential Modulation Approach. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2008, 531786 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/531786
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/531786