Abstract
Opportunistic relaying in cooperative communication depends on careful relay selection. However, the traditional centralized method used for opportunistic amplify-and-forward protocols requires precise measurements of channel state information at the destination. In this paper, we adopt the max-min criterion as a relay selection framework for opportunistic amplify-and-forward cooperative communications, which was exhaustively used for the decode-and-forward protocol, and offer an accurate performance analysis based on exact statistics of the local signal-to-noise ratios of the best relay. Furthermore, we evaluate the asymptotical performance and deduce the diversity order of our proposed scheme. Finally, we validate our analysis by showing that performance simulation results coincide with our analytical results over Rayleigh fading channels, and we compare the max-min relay selection with their centralized channel state information-based and partial relay selection counterparts.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | n/a-n/a |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 10 2013 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This publication was made possible by the NPRP grant 27-6-7-10 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Information Systems
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering