Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Short-Packet Communications for Multihop MIMO Relaying
Abstract
This work considers the multihop multiple-input multiple-output relay network under short-packet communications to facilitate not only ultra-reliability but also low-latency communications. We assume that the transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme is utilized at the transmit side, whereas either selection combining (SC) or maximum ratio combining (MRC) is leveraged at the receive side to achieve diversity gains. For quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels and the finite-blocklength regime, we derive the approximate closed-form expressions of the end-to-end (e2e) block error rate (BLER) for both the TAS/MRC and TAS/SC schemes. The asymptotic performance in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime is derived, from which the comparison of TAS/MRC and TAS/SC schemes in terms of the diversity order, e2e BLER loss, and SNR gap is provided. The e2e latency and throughputs are also analyzed for the considered schemes. The correctness of our analysis is confirmed via Monte Carlo simulations.
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@article{arxiv.2112.10529,
title = {Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Short-Packet Communications for Multihop MIMO Relaying},
author = {Ngo Hoang Tu and Kyungchun Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10529},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications 2022 (Conference version of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications paper), Short-packet communication, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (uRLLCs), multihop relaying, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), transmit and receive diversity