Performance Analysis of Dual-Hop AF Relay Networks in the Presence of Channel Estimation Errors and Feedback Delay

摘要

In this letter, we investigate the performance of multiple-input multiple-output two hop beamforming amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks under imperfect channel state information (CSI) including channel estimation errors (CEE) and feedback delay (FD). To quantify the effect of imperfect CSI on our considered network, we derive the closed-form expression for the outage probability. To gain more insight, we also present an asymptotic analysis which provides the details of the diversity order and array gain. Through our works, one can see the effect of CEE and FD on the system as well as the benefits of deploying multiple antennas at the terminals. Numerical and simulation results are provided to verify the analysis and compare the performance of the considered network for two different models for channel estimation error.