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IEEE Communications Letters | 2013

Low SNR Capacity of FSO Links over Gamma-Gamma Atmospheric Turbulence Channels

Fatma Benkhelifa; Zouheir Rezki; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we study the ergodic capacity of free space optical communication systems over Gamma-Gamma atmospheric turbulence fading channels with perfect channel state information at both the transmitter and the receiver. In our framework, we mainly focus on the low signal-to-noise ratio range and show that the ergodic capacity scales proportionally to SNR log4(1/SNR). We show also that one-bit CSI feedback at the transmitter is enough to achieve this capacity using an on-off power control scheme.


IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2016

Rate Maximization in MIMO Decode-and-Forward Communications With an EH Relay and Possibly Imperfect CSI

Fatma Benkhelifa; Ahmed Sultan Salem; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we investigate the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer in a multiple-input multiple-output decode-and-forward relay system, where the relay is an energy harvesting (EH) multi-antenna node equipped with an EH receiver and an information decoding (ID) receiver. The relay harvests the energy from the radio frequency signals sent by the source and uses it to forward the signals to the destination. The main objective in this paper is to maximize the achievable transmission rate of the overall link by optimizing the source/relay precoders. First, we study an upper bound on the maximum achievable rate where we assume that the EH and ID receivers operate simultaneously and have access to the whole power of the received signals. Afterward, we study two practical schemes, which are the power splitting and time switching schemes, where the ID and EH receivers have partial access to the power or duration of the received signals. For each scheme, we have studied the complexity and the performance comparison. In addition, we considered the case of the imperfect channel estimation error and we have observed its impact on the achievable end-to-end rate and the harvested energy at the relay.


international conference on communications | 2015

A fast simulation method for the Log-normal sum distribution using a hazard rate twisting technique

Nadhir Ben Rached; Fatma Benkhelifa; Mohamed-Slim Alouini; Raul Tempone

The probability density function of the sum of Log-normally distributed random variables (RVs) is a well-known challenging problem. For instance, an analytical closed-form expression of the Log-normal sum distribution does not exist and is still an open problem. A crude Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is of course an alternative approach. However, this technique is computationally expensive especially when dealing with rare events (i.e. events with very small probabilities). Importance Sampling (IS) is a method that improves the computational efficiency of MC simulations. In this paper, we develop an efficient IS method for the estimation of the Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) of the sum of independent and not identically distributed Log-normal RVs. This technique is based on constructing a sampling distribution via twisting the hazard rate of the original probability measure. Our main result is that the estimation of the CCDF is asymptotically optimal using the proposed IS hazard rate twisting technique. We also offer some selected simulation results illustrating the considerable computational gain of the IS method compared to the naive MC simulation approach.


vehicular technology conference | 2015

Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for Decode-and-Forward MIMO Relay Communication Systems

Fatma Benkhelifa; Ahmed Sultan Salem; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we investigate the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for a decode-and-forward (DF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system where the relay is an energy harvesting node. We consider the ideal scenario where both the energy harvesting (EH) receiver and information decoding (ID) receiver at the relay have access to the whole received signal and its energy. The relay harvests the energy while receiving the signal from the source and uses the harvested power to forward the signal to the destination. We obtain the optimal precoders at the source and the relay to maximize the achievable throughput rate of the overall link. In the numerical results, the effect of the transmit power at the source and the position of the relay between the source and the destination on the maximum achievable rate are investigated.


IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2014

On the Low SNR Capacity of MIMO Fading Channels With Imperfect Channel State Information

Fatma Benkhelifa; Abdoulaye Tall; Zouheir Rezki; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Rayleigh fading channels with full knowledge of channel state information (CSI) at both the transmitter and the receiver (CSI-TR) has been shown recently to scale at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) essentially as SNR log(1/SNR), independently of the number of transmit and receive antennas. In this paper, we investigate the ergodic capacity of MIMO Rayleigh fading channel with estimated channel state information at the transmitter (CSI-T) and possibly imperfect channel state information at the receiver (CSI-R). Our framework can be seen as a generalization of previous works as it can capture the perfect CSI-TR as a special case when the estimation error variance goes to zero. In this paper, we mainly focus on the low SNR regime, and we show that the capacity scales as


IEEE Access | 2017

Precoding Design of MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Communication System With an Energy Harvesting Relay and Possibly Imperfect CSI

Fatma Benkhelifa; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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global communications conference | 2014

Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems

Fatma Benkhelifa; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

SNR log(1/SNR), where


international conference on communications | 2016

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer for spectrum sharing in cognitive radio communication systems

Fatma Benkhelifa; Kamel Tourki; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | 2013

On the Low SNR Capacity of Maximum Ratio Combining over Rician Fading Channels with Full Channel State Information

Fatma Benkhelifa; Zouheir Rezki; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

is the estimation error variance. This characterization shows the loss of performance due to error estimation over the perfect channel state information at both the transmitter and the receiver. As a by-product of our new analysis, we show that our framework can be also extended to characterize the capacity of MIMO Rician fading channels at low SNR with possibly imperfect CSI-T and CSI-R.


international workshop on signal processing advances in wireless communications | 2012

Cooperative decoding in femtocell networks: Performance-complexity tradeoff

Fatma Benkhelifa; Zouheir Rezki; Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we investigate the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) amplify-and-forward relay communication system, where the relay is an energy harvesting (EH) node and harvests the energy the signals transmitted from the source. The harvested energy is partially used to forward signals from the source to the destination, and the remaining energy is stored for other usages. The SWIPT in relay-assisted communication is interesting as long as the relay stores energy from the source and the destination receives successfully the data from the source. In this context, we propose to investigate the source and relay precoders that characterize the relationship between the achievable stored energy at the relay and the achievable source-to-destination rate, namely, the rate-stored energy (R-E) tradeoff region. First, we consider the ideal scheme, where there is the simultaneous operation of the EH and information decoding (ID) receivers at the relay. Then, we consider practical schemes, such as the power splitting and the time switching that separate the operation of EH and ID receivers over power domain or time domain, respectively. Moreover, we study the case of imperfect channel state information at the relay and the destination, and characterize its impact on the achievable R-E region. Through the simulation results, we show the effect of the position of the relay and the channel uncertainty on the achievable R-E regions of all the schemes when the used energy at the relay is constant or variable. We also show that, although it provides an outer bound on the achievable rate-energy region in one-hop MIMO systems, the ideal scheme provides only an upper bound on the maximum achievable end-to-end rate and not an outer bound on the R-E region.

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Mohamed-Slim Alouini

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Ahmed Sultan Salem

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Nadhir Ben Rached

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Raul Tempone

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Abla Kammoun

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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