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Spatial Modulation techniques (SMTs) offer an exceptional trade-off between spectral and energy efficiencies. In this work, we propose a new SMT termed as permutation index-quadrature spatial modulation (PI-QSM), aiming for enhanced spectral efficiency and better average bit error rate (ABER) performance compared to rival SMTs. To enhance spectral efficiency, PI-QSM exploits permutations of active transmit antennas by conveying additional information bits innovatively through indices of active antenna permutations. PI-QSM also alleviates the major constraint in some of the SMTs, where the total number of transmit antennas need to be a power of two. At any time instance, PI-QSM transmits real and imaginary parts of two complex modulated symbols separately using four different active antennas. To avoid any ambiguities at the receiver and to improve the error performance of the overall system, a rotation angle is introduced between the two modulated symbols before transmission. The rotation angle is optimized for different M -quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations using extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Performance of PI-QSM scheme is analyzed by deriving closed-form expressions for upper bound and asymptotic average bit error probability (ABEP) over Rayleigh fading channels. The Simulation results substantiate the accuracy of analytical analysis and also indicate that the proposed PI-QSM scheme offers better ABER performance than rival SMTs such as QSM and generalized QSM (GQSM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multi input multi output (MIMO) based multi-hop relay (MHR) networks has become one of the promising technologies in improving the quality of wireless links. The optimal antenna selection is one of the suitable solutions to overcome the limitations of MIMO scheme. To attain the full benefits of transmitter antenna selection schemes, perfect channel quality information (CQI) is required at the transmitter. The time varying channel and the feedback delay make CQI at the transmitter outdated and also affect the antenna selection process. In this work, we have derived the symbol error probability (SEP) of M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) for three different antenna selection schemes by considering the effect of delayed CQI. All these derived expressions are the function of correlation between CQI at the receiver and delayed CQI at the transmitter. The simulation results show that the antenna selection gain decreases with the decrease in correlation. It is also observed that scheme 1 based antenna selection is optimal for different constellations and more suited for MHR network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]