Improvement of the Spatial Channel Matrix Mapping and Precoding Algorithm in the Forest Environment

Abstract

Few studies have been conducted on the forest spatial channel matrix, most of which were conducted by experts and scholars in the field of communications. The mature cellular network channel coding matrix was “transplanted” to the vegetation-covered space, and the effects of the various vegetation dielectric constants, the forest canopy density and other objective factors on the traditional cellular channel were ignored. To overcome this problem, this paper built a relay network that is suitable for forest environments. This network was an effective complement to the existing cellular communication network for expanding the coverage of signals in the forest. On this basis, this paper analysed the multi-antenna relay transmission protocol and proposed an additional spatial channel matching (mapping) matrix between the forward and backward filters. This matrix was designed to consider the effect of the complex forest environment on the channel to reduce the relaying noise power. Then, under the forest cellular relay network topology, a spatial channel matrix structure (based on unitary matrix) that is suitable for the forest environment is proposed. This matrix can be incorporated into various relay protocols and considers the source node preprocessing operation and the destination node equalizer. The forest relay cooperative network that is proposed in this paper can effectively expand the coverage of signals in forest areas; however, due to the inherent limitations of the relay network, many problems will be encountered in practical applications. For example, the precoding scheme that is based on phase correction requires the terminal node to feed the phase correction factor back to the forest base station node; however, the system performance is substantially affected by the feedback accuracy and the arrival delay difference. Due to the uncertain rank of the integrated channel in the forest base station precoding scheme, it was necessary to adapt to a variety of antenna ports, which rendered the design of the precoding codebook highly difficult. In addition, when the number of transmission layers was greater than 1, the local precoding scheme also encountered the problem of inter-layer interference (ILI). Based on a detailed analysis of the shortcomings of the previous scheme and the strategy of partial coherence transmission, this paper proposes an improved algorithm of incoherent joint transmission technology and an improved precoding scheme that are suitable for forest relay systems. The signal that is transmitted by the relay node and the feedback signal is corrected via layer exchange between cells and via phase correction. By changing the layer's exchange information and phase information, it can be adapted to various forest environments, such as artificial forests, natural forests, and virgin forests. Finally, the outage probability is considered as a performance indicator in the simulation of the forest environment wireless relay system. The theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the satisfactory performance of the proposed spatial channel mapping matrix and the forest relay precoding scheme.

Keywords

• Forest environment
• forest channel matrix mapping
• relay system
• phase correction
• ILI