Precoding in relay networks with frequency selective channels

Adrian Schad, Babak H. Khalaj, Marius Pesavento

Abstract: We consider a wireless network with one source, multiple relays and multiple destinations. The source and the relays are assumed to utilize multiple antennas. To reduce the effects of the frequency selective source-to-relay and relay-to-destination channels, and to compensate for the different delays of the various signal paths in the network and for multi-user interference and noise, the source, the relays and the destinations apply linear filtering to their signals. The proposed scheme generalizes the recently proposed filter-and-forward relaying scheme. We propose an iterative algorithm to solve the problem of maximizing the quality-of-service at the destinations. Simulation results demonstrate the performance improvement achievable due to the precoding at the source.