For the high end-to-end channel capacity, the amplify-and-forward scheme multiple-hop MIMO relays system is considered. The distance between each transceiver is optimized to prevent some relays from being the bottleneck and guarantee the high end-to-end channel capacity. However, in some cases, the location of relays can’t be set at the desired location, the transmit power of each relay should be optimized. Additionally, in order to achieve the higher end-to-end channel capacity, the distance and the transmit power are optimized simultaneously. We propose the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to optimize both the distance and the transmit power in complex propagation environments. Moreover, when the system has no control over transmission of each relay, the interference signal is presented and the performance of system is deteriorated. The general protocol of control transmission for each relay on the MAC layer is analyzed and compared to the Carrier Sense Multiple Access-Collision Avoidance protocol. According to the number of relays, the Mac layer protocol for the highest end-to-end channel capacity is changed. We also analyze the end-to-end channel capacity when the number of antennas and relays tends to infinity.
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems have been discussed in several literatures. Both the Gaussian MIMO relay channels with fixed channel conditions derive upper bounds and lower bounds that can be obtained numerically by convex programming. The upper bound and the lower bound on the ergodic capacity are found. In particular, for the case when all the nodes have the same number of antennas, the capacity can be achieved under the certain signal to noise ratio (SNR) condition [1-3]. Additionally, the ergodic capacity of the amplifyand-forward relay network is discussed. The links between the relay-transmitters and relay-receivers are assumed to be parallel [
When the number of the relay antennas is less than the number of the transmit and receive antennas, the capacity of MIMO relay system is lower than that of the original MIMO system. Moreover, when the number of the relay antennas equals the number of the transmit and receive antennas or more, the MIMO relay system can provide the same average capacity as an original MIMO system. In other words, although the number of relay antennas is larger than the number of transmit and receive antennas, the capacity of MIMO relay system can’t exceed the capacity of original MIMO system [5,6,8-10].
Therefore, in order to achieve the high performance, the multiplehop relays system is considered. The diversity-multiplexing gain tradeoff (DMT) of multi-hop MIMO relay network with multiple antenna terminals in a quasi-static slow fading environment has also been considered. It is shown that the dynamic decode-andforward protocol achieves the optimal DMT if the relay is constrained to half-duplex operation. All the odd (or even) number hops is assumed to be operated simultaneously. However, the interference signal is assumed to be absent, and the perfomance based on a transmission protocol that only has two phases is analyzed [
However, in these papers the SNR at receiver(s) is assumed to be fixed and the location as well as the transmit power of each transmitter(s) are not dealt. In the multiple-hop MIMO relay system, when the distance between the source (Tx) and the destination (Rx) is fixed, the distance between the Tx to a relay (RS), RS to RS, RS to the Rx called the distances between transceivers, is shorten. Consequently, according to the number of relay and the location of the relays, the SNR and the capacity are changed. Hence, to achieve the high end-to-end channel capacity, the location of each relay meaning the distance between each transceiver needs to be optimized. We have analyzed the performance of half-duplex multiple hop relay system with the amplify-and-forward (AF) strategy [
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We introduce the concept of multiple-hop MIMO relays system in Section 2. Section 3 shows the optimization method for distance and the transmit power. The Mac layer protocol is described in Section 4. The end-to-end channel capacity of system with infinite number of antennas and relays is analyzed in Section 5. Finally, Section 6 concludes the paper.
The multiple-hop MIMO relays system is described in details in [