Performance Analysis of System Architecture using Wireless Relay Station and Virtual MIMO in WiBro Uplink

Abstract

Introduction of Relay Station (RS) is unavoidable and wireless RS has gained more interest for next generation mobile communication systems including Wireless Broadband (WiBro) system. Also, Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) scheme is an emerging technology, offering high spectral efficiency. In this paper, we propose a system architecture applying Space Time Block Coding (STBC) algorithm in RS-Base Station (BS) link and Virtual MIMO (V-MIMO) scheme in Mobile Station (MS)-RS link based on WiBro network using wireless RS. The proposed system architecture is analyzed comparing with conventional single antenna system in uplink. As a result of simulation, the proposed system architecture outperforms the 2~3dB Bit Error Rate (BER) performance in RS-BS, MS-RS, MS-RS-BS uplink. And uplink transmission capacity improved 1.7-1.8 times. The system architecture proposed in this paper, is efficient because it can improve transmission gain and system capacity without change of MS.