一种基于QoS的自适应混合协同传输方法及性能分析

理想的混合协同传输系统中,所有的中继节点都参与译码,将带来计算复杂度的提高、节点资源消耗的增加以及信息传输时延的增大。针对多节点的协同无线传输网络,提出了一种基于服务质量(Quality of Service, QoS)的自适应混合协同传输方法,并进行了性能分析,给出了系统误码率(Symbol Error Rate, SER)及中断概率的闭合表达式。该方法根据目的节点的QoS需求以及中继节点的信噪比(SNR)门限,动态地调整中继节点的传输模式,能够减小系统能耗,延长节点使用寿命。数值及仿真结果表明,基于中继节点信噪比门限的混合协同传输能够以较低的实现复杂度获得与理想的混合协同传输相近的性能,理论的性能分析结果与实际仿真结果相一致。     

非对称衰落信道下无人机中继传输方案及性能分析

 无人机(UAV)作为中继传输平台受到了国内外研究人员的广泛关注。本文研究了非对称衰落信道下的无人机中继传输系统,提出了输出信噪比最大化准则下的波束形成(BF)优化方案,并推导出系统中断概率、遍历容量和平均误符号率等无线通信系统主要性能指标的理论表达式。通过计算机仿真验证了本文提出的中继传输方案及性能分析的正确性,并定量分析了天线数量、信道参数以及功率分配对系统性能的影响,为无人机中继传输系统的设计及性能评估提供了参考和依据。     

深空中继通信束聚合效能研究

针对深空中继通信环境中BP/LTP协议加入束聚合策略对数据传输效率的影响问题,建模分析LTP数据块传输时间,考虑多会话并发及中继节点参与,获得应用数据在深空中继环境中总传输时间的期望,分析出束聚合策略对深空中继通信性能的影响。通过数值实验对不同束聚合值在典型深空中继通信环境中的效率进行了检验。结果表明:在应答链路不阻塞的约束下,越小的束聚合规模传输效率越高,且节点发送缓存大小对性能有重要影响。     

认知协作Ad Hoc网络中分布路由跨层控制策略

认知无线电Ad Hoc网络中,吞吐量最大化是一个关键的挑战.为了实现这一目标,协同传输是前景看好的技术,利用在每个空间节点的多样性中继链路以增加性能,特别是在无线环境中由于不同的信道质量、有限的能源和带宽资源,这种想法是有吸引力的.文章在分布式动态环境下,研究了联合动态路由.中继分配和频谱分配分布式和本地算法,提出了一...     

空时分组编码的无人机中继通信航迹规划方法

无人机(UAV)中继通信是实现远距离点对点无线通信的一种重要技术手段。为提高无人机中继通信系统链路传输的可靠性,提出基于空时分组编码的无人机放大转发中继通信传输方案,并基于双跳链路遍历容量最大化的准则给出了无人机最佳航迹规划方法,并进一步利用FM-EM算法给出了基于空时分组编码无人机中继通信系统的中断概率及遍历信道容量计算公式。计算机仿真表明:提出的方法显著优于传统的单发单收(SISO)无人机中继通信系统。     

空间通信中的一种滑动窗口BATS码传输方案研究

针对空间通信中链路传播时延大、丢包率高、中继节点多的问题,在具有良好多级中继传输性能的BATS码基础上,提出一种滑动窗口传输方案,以提高空间传输的可靠性和时效性。利用小度值Batch对滑动窗口的非重叠区域进行编码传输,并采用不等滑动步长,实现了对滑动窗口的重叠部分和非重叠部分的均衡保护,使传输既具有较高可靠性,又具有较高的传输效率。仿真结果表明,在维持与传统的连续重叠滑窗相近可靠性的同时,传输效率提高约20%。     

一种基于多无人机的中继节点布置问题建模与优化方法

针对战场环境下急需在无法通信的节点间构建有效通信链路的情形,使用多无人机作为中继节点,建立了中继节点布置(RNP)问题模型。模型以中继链路有效和无人机安全为约束,以中继布置点位置及相应的无人机为输出,不但考虑了使用的中继无人机数量,还考虑了构建中继链路花费的时间。考虑到该问题是难以求解的混合整数多目标优化问题,同时在紧急应用情形下,要求求解算法快速有效,建立了一种多项式时间中继节点布置算法(PTRPA)。仿真实验验证了所提模型确实能够在更短的时间内完成有效中继链路构建;通过Monte-Carlo方法对比和分析不同因素对PTRPA算法、随机抽样算法、遗传算法求解该问题的结果性能和时间性能的影响,验证了PTRPA算法不但能够给出接近最优的解,且快速有效,满足战场决策需求。     

深空通信中继文件传输协议设计

深空通信极远的传输距离导致链路误码率高,使文件的可靠传输需要较多的重传次数,而其传播时延长的特点,进一步加大了文件传输时延。研究以CCSDS(空间数据系统咨询委员会)文件传输协议的存储-转发机制,提出一种R-CFDP(中继型CFDP协议),设计了3种中继"存储-转发"策略,并数学建模推导了R-CFDP协议的文件传输时延理论计算式。仿真证明R-CFDP协议相对于CFDP(CCSDS文件传输协议)协议在传输时延方面具有优势。     

基于网络编码的空间DTN中CGR改进算法

随着空间通信技术的发展,卫星节点的增多,以及容延迟容中断通信需求的不断提高,空间DTN (DelayTolerant Network,容延迟网络)环境中各通信节点间的路由技术日益重要,相继出现了多种适用于DTN的路由技术.基于空间DTN的结构与特点,对CGR(Contact Graph Routing,接触图路由)算法以及基于编码的路由算法进行了分析比较,然后针对空间DTN中CGR算法的缺点和不足,研究提出了基于NC(Network Coding,网络编码)的空间DTN中的CGR改进算法(NC-CGR),并通过仿真实验平台对算法性能进行了分析评估.仿真结果表明,相比于CGR算法,NC-CGR算法在链路传输时延、传输包裹数目、中继缓存大小、链路丢包率等不同条件下的适应性方面均表现出较大优势,更适用于具有复杂拓扑、带宽受限、高动态特性的空间DTN环境.     

中继卫星系统地面云存储架构设计

针对中继卫星系统日益增长的海量数据存储需求,探索将云技术应用于中继卫星地面存储系统中,研究并设计了适用于中继卫星系统的分布式云存储的体系架构.该架构通过分布式存储和存储虚拟化技术,对存储资源进行了整合,将分布在不同地理位置上的存储网络,集合成一个大规模广域云存储系统,可提供整体存储和访问的功能,并实现对数据的高效“存”、“取”、“管”.与传统NAS(Network Attached Storage,网络附加存储)架构分析比较,该架构从系统扩展性、可靠性和服务性等多个方面均更加具有优势,能够适应日益增长的中继卫星系统海量数据存储需求,解决中继卫星系统中大容量数据存储的瓶颈.     

Relay selection in cooperative communication systems over continuous time-varying fading channel

In this paper, we study relay selection under outdated channel state information (CSI) in a decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative system. Unlike previous researches on cooperative commu-nication under outdated CSI, we consider that the channel varies continuously over time, i.e., the channel not only changes between relay selection and data transmission but also changes during data transmission. Thus the level of accuracy of the CSI used in relay selection degrades with data transmission. We first evaluate the packet error rate (PER) of the cooperative system under contin-uous time-varying fading channel, and find that the PER performance deteriorates more seriously under continuous time-varying fading channel than when the channel is assumed to be constant during data transmission. Then, we propose a repeated relay selection (RRS) strategy to improve the PER performance, in which the forwarded data is divided into multiple segments and relay is reselected before the transmission of each segment based on the updated CSI. Finally, we propose a combined relay selection (CRS) strategy which takes advantage of three different relay selection strategies to further mitigate the impact of outdated CSI.     

Relay selection based on MAP estimation for cooperative communication with outdated channel state information

In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication system when the channel state information (CSI) used in relay selection differs from that during data transmission, i.e., the CSI used in relay selection is outdated. The selected relay may not be actually the best for data transmission and the outage performance of the cooperative system will deteriorate. To improve its performance, we propose a relay selection strategy based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation, where relay is selected based on predicted signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To reduce the computation complexity, we approximate the a posteriori probability density of SNR and obtain a closed-form predicted SNR, and a relay selection strategy based on the approximate MAP estimation (RS-AMAP) is proposed. The simulation results show that this approximation leads to trivial performance loss from the perspective of outage probability. Compared with relay selection strategies given in the literature, the outage probability is reduced largely through RS-AMAP for medium-to-large transmitting powers and medium-to-high channel correlation coefficients.     

Proactive optimization of transmission power and 3D trajectory in UAV-assisted relay systems with mobile ground users

In this paper, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted relay communication system is studied, where a UAV is served as a flying relay to maintain a communication link between a mobile source node and a remote destination node. Specifically, an average outage probability minimization problem is formulated firstly, with the constraints on the transmission power of the source node, the maximum energy consumption budget, the transmission power, the speed and acceleration of the flying UAV relay. Next, the closed-form of outage probability is derived, under the hybrid line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight probability channel model. To deal with the formulated nonconvex optimization, a long-term proactive optimization mechanism is developed. In particular, firstly, an approximation for line-of-sight probability and a reformulation of the primal problem are given, respectively. Then, the reformulated problem is transformed into two subproblems: one is the transmission power optimization with given UAV’s trajectory and the other is the trajectory optimization with given transmission power allocation. Next, two subproblems are tackled via tailoring primal–dual subgradient method and successive convex approximation, respectively. Furthermore, a proactive optimization algorithm is proposed to jointly optimize the transmission power allocation and the three-dimensional trajectory. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm under various parameter configurations.     

Decision fusion rules in multi-hop wireless sensor networks

The decision fusion problem for a wireless sensor network (WSN) operating in a fading environment is considered. In particular, we develop channel-aware decision fusion rules for resource-constrained WSNs where binary decisions from local sensors may need to be relayed through multi-hop transmission in order to reach a fusion center. Each relay node employs a binary relay scheme whereby the relay output is inferred from the channel impaired observation received from its source node. This estimated binary decision is subsequently transmitted to the next node until it reaches the fusion center. Under a flat fading channel model, we derive the optimum fusion rules at the fusion center for two cases. In the first case, we assume that the fusion center has knowledge of the fading channel gains at all hops. In the second case, we assume a Rayleigh fading model, and derive fusion rules utilizing only the fading channel statistics. We show that likelihood ratio (LR) based optimum decision fusion statistics for both cases reduce to respective simple linear test statistics in the low channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. These suboptimum detectors are easy to implement and require little a priori information. Performance evaluation, including a study of the robustness of the fusion statistics with respect to unknown system parameters, is conducted through simulations.     

Energy-efficiency maximization for fixed-wing UAV-enabled relay network with circular trajectory

With the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the applications of UAVs have been extensively explored. In the field of wireless communications, the relay nodes are often used to extend network coverage. However, traditional fixed ground relays cannot be flexibly deployed due to their low heights and fixed locations. Hence, deploying UAV as relay node is a promising solution and has become a research hotspot. In this paper, we consider an UAV-enabled relaying network in which a fixed-wing UAV is deployed between the Base Station (BS) and Ground Users (GUs). We study the energy-efficiency gap between the link “BS-UAV-GUs” and the link “BS-GUs”, and jointly optimize UAV relay transmission power and flight radius to achieve the highest energy-efficiency. Firstly, the UAV/BS-GUs channels models and the UAV energy consumption model are built. Secondly, the optimization objective function is formulated to maximize the energy-efficiency gap. Then, the solution of the optimization problem is divided into a two-step iteration process, in which the UAV relay transmission power and flight radius are adjusted to maximize the energy-efficiency gap. Finally, the experimental results under different simulation scenarios (such as cities, forests, deserts, oceans, etc.) are shown to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm can always find the optimal UAV relay transmission power and flight radius settings, and achieve the largest energy-efficiency gap. The convergency speed of the proposed algorithm is fast, and can obtain the optimal solution within only a few iterations.     

基于喷泉编码的中继信道协作方案

首先给出了二进制删除中继信道下基于喷泉编码的多种协作方案,并依性能得出了最优方案,此后借鉴渐近最优喷泉编码的概念,将该最优协作方案扩展到无线中继信道中,并利用排队理论实现了中继节点的最优流量控制,给出了无线中继信道下的中继流控制协作方案。仿真结果表明,基于喷泉编码的中继信道协作方案有效地解决了中继缓存溢出问题,提高了信道的可达速率。     

Cooperative Routing for Maximizing Network Performance of Wireless Networks

To greatly increase spectral efficiency and improve network performance in wireless networks,a novel cooperative routing algorithm,namely maximum throughput cooperative routing(MTCR) algorithm,is proposed.According to cooperative link model,throughput analysis is presented to evaluate performance improvement in the process of exploiting cooperative commu-nication from physical layer to higher layer.Taking the throughput improvement as performance metric,a cooperative relay se-lection scheme is developed.Finally,based on the route constructed by adaptive forwarding cluster routing(AFCR) algorithm,each node on the route selects the optimum cooperative node from all the potential cooperative nodes to construct the coopera-tive link with maximum throughput so that cooperative route with maximum network throughput from source to destination can be set up.Simulation results show that compared with the noncooperative routing algorithm and minimum power selection de-code-and-forward(MPSDF) routing algorithm,the proposed algorithm can obviously improve network throughput in the pres-ence of low transmission power,large number of nodes and high spectral efficiency.