MSINR based precoding design for non-regenerative MIMO relay system

The maximum signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (MSINR) design criterion is proposed in this paper to maximize the geometric product of signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (GEOM-SINR) in non-regenerative MIMO relay system. It is shown that the optimal MSINR based precoding at relay will diagonalize the equivalent source-relay-destination channel into parallel sub-channels, and the MSINR based MIMO relay precoding design will be transformed into the MSINR criterion based power allocation among multiple sub-channels. Simulation results are presented to corroborate the MSINR-based MIMO relay precoding design. It is unveiled that, compared with the existing maximal mutual information (MMI) based MIMO relay precoding design and the minimal mean square error (MMSE) based MIMO relay precoding design, MSINR-based MIMO relay precoding design is able to achieve a better tradeoff between the communication reliability and the realized ergodic capacity. © 2012 IEEE