Two-ray (TR) fading model is one of the fading models to represent a worst-case fading scenario. We derive the exact closed-form expressions of the generalized moment generating function (G-MGF) for the TR fading model, which enables us to analyze the numerous types of wireless communication applications. Among them, we carry out several analytical results for the TR fading model, including the exact ergodic capacity along with asymptotic expressions and energy detection performance. Finally, we provide numerical results to validate our evaluations.

In this letter, we present a new expression of ergodic capacity for two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading channels. The derived formula is relatively concise and consists of well-known functions even in infinite series form. Especially, the truncated approximate expression and asymptotic formula are also presented, which enable us to obtain useful and physical insights on the effect of TWDP fading on the ergodic capacity for various fading conditions.

In this paper, we consider a two-hop communication system with an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay under channel estimation errors. According to the channel quality of the link between the base station (BS) and the relay, we investigate two typical relay scenarios. We study the capacity performance for both In-Band Full-Duplex (IBFD) and Half-Duplex (HD) transmission modes. Moreover, we consider two operation modes of the user equipment (UE) for each scenario. Closed-form expressions of ergodic capacities with channel estimation errors are obtained for scenario-1. And we derive accurate approximations of ergodic capacities for scenario-2. Numerical experiments are conducted to verify the analytical results and show that our theoretical derivations are perfectly matched with the simulations. We show that with practical signal-to-noise ratio values and effective interference cancellation techniques, IBFD transmission is preferable in terms of capacity.

Free-space optical (FSO) communication, which offers better data rate at a lower cost compared to radio-frequency (RF) backhauls, and is much easier to setup and maintain than optical cables, is gaining attention as an attractive substitute. Average capacity is one of the main performances metrics to understand the connectivity and data rates of a communication system but the performance analysis for mixed RF/FSO link is not straightforward as the RF link and the FSO link experiences different atmospheric perturbations. In this paper, we have investigated the ergodic capacity of a dual-hop mixed RF/FSO communication system realized with an average power scaling (APS) based amplify and forward (AF) relay. Assuming moderate to strong atmospheric turbulence, the FSO link is modeled by gamma-gamma distribution while it is assumed that the RF link experiences multipath Rayleigh fading. Simple analytical methods have been devised for obtaining concise closed-form expressions for ergodic capacity under four different rate/ power adaptation policies and are validated through extensive Monte Carlo simulations.

The problem of power allocation for the secondary user (SU) in a cognitive radio (CR) network is investigated in this paper. The primary user (PU) is protected by the average interference power constraint. Besides the average interference power constraint at the PU, the transmit power of the SU is also subject to the peak or average transmit power constraint. The aim is to balance between the goal of maximizing the ergodic capacity and the goal of minimizing the outage probability of the SU. Power allocation schemes are then proposed under the aforementioned setups. It is shown that the proposed power allocation schemes can achieve high ergodic capacity while maintaining low outage probability, whereas existing schemes achieve either high ergodic capacity with high outage probability or low outage probability with low ergodic capacity.

This paper addresses a noise matching problem for MIMO receiver with mutual coupling in the presence of signal and antenna noise coupling. The matching network in this paper is designed to maximize the system's ergodic capacity by means of minimizing the noise figure matrix. For reducing RF circuit complexity, low noise matching design without crossover elements of the matching circuit is derived for compact symmetrical 2$ imes$2 MIMO receiver system with mutually coupled antenna. Numerical simulation verifies our analytical results and demonstrates the superiority of the proposed matching method among feasible ones. The paper furthermore investigates the lossy matching circuit with the corresponding circuit parameters in a specific condition and the effect of practical matching circuit.

In the Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) system under the condition of limited feedback, a reasonable coordinated set relies heavily on the splitting factor that is used to divide the total feedback bits into channel direction information (CDI) feedback bits and channel quality information (CQI) feedback bits. The relation of splitting factor and coordinated set is examined in this paper. After defining a penalty factor, we derive the net ergodic capacity optimization problem, whose variables to be optimized are the number of coordinated BSs, the divided area's radius and the splitting factor. According to an existing codebook and the quantized channel error model, the downlink received signal model is updated after adding the splitting factor. Through random matrix knowledge, the stochastic property of this model is obtained. A close approximate expression including the splitting factor to be optimized related to coordinated set is given. In addition, a revised adaptive feedback scheme is proposed to split the feedback bits. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides a significant performance gain, especially as the user velocity is high.

This letter proposes an adaptive scheme that switches between cooperative and non-cooperative transmission for multicell downlink systems in Kronecker spatially correlated channels, which exploits statistical channel state information (CSI). Based on the received signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and a cooperation metric, we propose a simple base station (BS) association method and then derive low-SNR capacity approximations for both cooperative and non-cooperative systems. Using the results, we provide a low-complexity efficient cooperation switching method to enhance the system capacity. Results show that the proposed method is more efficient than the conventional method to search the switching point.

In this letter, the performance of opportunistic-based two-way relaying with beamforming over Nakagami-m fading channels is investigated. We provide an approximate expression for the cumulative distribution function of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio to derive the closed-form lower bounds for the outage probability and average bit error probability as well as the closed-form upper bound for the ergodic capacity. Simulation results demonstrate the tightness of the derived bounds.

In this paper, we propose an exact analytical technique to evaluate the average capacity of a dual-hop OFDM relay system with decode-and-forward protocol in an independent and identical distribution (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channel. Four schemes, (no) matching "and" or "or" (no) power allocation, will be considered. First, the probability density function (pdf) for the end-to-end power channel gain for each scheme is described. Then, based on these pdf functions, we will give the expressions of the average capacity. Monte Carlo simulation results will be shown to confirm the analytical results for both the pdf functions and average capacities.

This paper analyzes the ergodic capacity of the MIMO multi-keyhole channel, assuming that the channel state information (CSI) is available only at the receiver. We first derive new closed-form expressions for marginal probability density function (pdf) of the single unordered eigenvalue as well as joint pdf of ordered eigenvalues of the channel matrix in a simple and general framework. With these statistical results, we then present an exact closed-form expression for the ergodic capacity. We analyze tight bounds on the exact capacity and propose a new tight lower bound. We also investigate the asymptotic capacity performances in low-signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and high-SNR regimes to gain further insights. All our results apply for arbitrary number of keyholes and antennas. Numerical simulations are presented to validate our theoretical analysis.

In spectrum-sharing systems where the secondary user (SU) opportunistically accesses the primary user (PU)'s licensed channel, the SU should satisfy both the transmit power constraint of the SU transmitter and the received power constraint at the PU receiver. This letter studies the ergodic capacity of spectrum-sharing systems in fading channels. The ergodic capacity expression along with the optimal power allocation scheme is derived considering both the average transmit and received power constraints. The capacity function in terms of the two power constraints is found to be divided into transmit power limited region, received power limited region and dual limited region. Numerical results in Rayleigh fading channels are presented to verify our analysis.

MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) communications systems equipped with array antennas at both the transmitter and receiver sides are a promising scheme to realize higher rate and/or reliable data transmission. In this paper, capacity analysis of MIMO Rayleigh channel with spatial correlation at the receiver of multipath taken into account is presented. In general, a model configuration of local scattering around a mobile station in MIMO environment is carried out by simulation to examine spatial correlation coefficients. Based on statistical properties of the eigenvalues of correlated complex random Wishart matrices, the exact closed-form expressions of distribution of the eigenvalues are investigated. Then, the general closed-form evaluation of integral form is proposed based on Meijer's G-function. The results demonstrate that the ergodic capacities are improved by increasing the number of the antennas and the SNR's. Compared with i.i.d. (independent identically distributed) Rayleigh channel, the incremental improvement of correlated Rayleigh channel is reduced by spatial fading correlation. The analytical results validated by Monte-Carlo simulations show a good agreement.

The exact calculation of the ergodic and outage capacity for Rayleigh fading single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channels in the presence of unequal-power Rayleigh fading interferers is mathematically quite challenging due to the complicated distribution of the capacity. In this paper, a SIMO system with M receive antennas and N interferers is considered. Based on some statistical results, the closed-form upper and lower bound for the ergodic and outage capacity are derived respectively. These bounds are shown to be simple to compute and appear to be quite tight.