This paper presents a prototype implementation and experimental performance evaluation of compress- and-forward (CF) relaying using software-defined radios. Under QPSK transmissions from all nodes, the relay demodulates the received signal before applying distributed joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) implemented with the help of an off-the- shelf convolutional code. The destination employs two stages of standard BCJR decoding; a DJSCC decoding stage for the relay's demodulated data followed by another to recover the source's message. Under varying channel conditions, we propose and implement an opportunistic Decode-or- Compress-and-Forward (DoCF) relaying strategy in which the relay forwards the decoded packet if a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is satisfied, and uses CF relaying otherwise. The prototype implementation of DoCF is carried out using National Instruments USRP 2921 devices. Over-the- air experiments in an indoor office environment indicate that the proposed DoCF strategy can achieve up to ten times smaller bit-error-rate than a standard DF implementation. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first in the literature to carry out an experimental study of CF relaying.


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    Title :

    Compress-and-Forward Relaying: Prototyping and Experimental Evaluation Using SDRs


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    Publication date :

    2016-09-01


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    494872 byte




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    Conference paper


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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