End-to-end channel capacity of multiple-hop MIMO relay system with MAC-PHY cross-layer

For high end-to-end channel capacity, the amplify-and-forward scheme multiple-hop MIMO relays system is considered. The distance between each transceiver and the transmit power of each relay node are optimized to prevent some relays from being the bottleneck and guarantee the high end-to-end channel capacity. By proposing the transmission environment coefficient, the path loss is described in a new way and then the distance of multiple-hop relay system can be optimized more simply than the original one. However, when the system has no control on Mac layer, the performance of system is deteriorated because of the presenting of interference signal. Thus the specific control protocol on MAC layer for multiple-hop system is proposed to reduce the power of interference signal and obtain the high end-to-end channel capacity. According to proposed control protocol on MAC layer, the system indicates the trade-off between the end-to-end channel capacity and the delay time. © 2013 IEEE.