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Sequential Closed-Form Semi-Blind Receiver for Space-Time Coded Multi-Hop Relaying Systems

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In this letter, we present a sequential closed-form semi-blind receiver for a one-way multi-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system. Assuming Khatri-Rao space-time (KRST) coding at each relay, it is shown that the system with K relays can be modeled by means of a generalized nested PARAFAC model. Decomposing this model into K +1 third-order PARAFAC models, we develop a closed-form semi-blind receiver for jointly estimating the information symbols and the individual channels, at the destination node. Each step consists of a Khatri-Rao factorization. Parameter identifiability conditions are given, and simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed semi-blind receiver. Index Terms—Multi-hop relaying, sequential closed-form semi-blind receiver, space time (ST) coding, amplify-and-forward, generalized nested PARAFAC model. I. INTRODUCTION Relay nodes will play an important role in 5G communication systems. In such systems, the high-capacity wireless backhaul offers operators an alternative solution to conventional backhauling using multi-hop short-distance communications [1]–[4]. Tensor decompositions have been widely exploited for point-to-point wireless communication systems. The practical motivation for tensor modeling comes from the fact that one can simultaneously benefit from multiple (more than two) signal diversities, like space, time and frequency diversities, for instance. In the context of cooperative wireless communications, few results have been published on tensor-based receivers, and most of them are limited to a single relay scenario. In previous works [5]–[8], the problem of channel estimation for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) relaying systems was considered under a supervised approach. The works [5]–[7] considered one-way two-hop systems, while [8] addressed two-way MIMO relaying systems. In [9] and [10], three-hop relaying systems were studied. Recent works proposed semi-blind receivers for joint symbol and channel estimation. For instance, one can cite the PARAFAC-PARATUCK [11] and the nested PARAFAC receivers [12], [13]. However, the generalization of tensor-based semi-blind receivers to the multi-hop relaying scenario has not been addressed so far to the best of authors' knowledge.
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Walter Freitas, Gérard Favier, André L. F. de Almeida. Sequential Closed-Form Semi-Blind Receiver for Space-Time Coded Multi-Hop Relaying Systems. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2017, 24 (12), pp.1773-1777. ⟨hal-01699755⟩
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