Power allocation strategies for fixed-gain half-duplex amplify-and-forward relaying in Nakagami-m fading

Ammar Zafar, Redha M. Radaydeh, Yunfei Chen, Mohamed Slim Alouini

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Abstract

In this paper, we study power allocation strategies for a fixed-gain amplify-and-forward relay network employing multiple relays. We consider two optimization problems for the relay network: 1) maximizing the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 2) minimizing the total power consumption while maintaining the end-to-end SNR over a threshold value. We investigate these two problems for two relaying protocols of all-participate (AP) relaying and selective relaying and two cases of feedback to the relays, namely full and limited. We show that the SNR maximization problem is concave and that the power minimization problem is convex for all protocols and feedback cases considered. We obtain closed-form expressions for the two problems in the case of full feedback and solve the problems through convex programming for limited feedback. Numerical results show the benefit of having full feedback at the relays for both optimization problems. However, they also show that feedback overhead can be reduced by having only limited feedback to the relays with only a small degradation in performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)159-173
Number of pages15
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2014

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-09-14
Acknowledgements: This work was funded by King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST).

Keywords

  • Amplify-and-forward
  • Energy-efficiency
  • Fixedgain
  • Full feedback
  • Half-duplex
  • Limited feedback
  • Nakagami-m fading
  • Optimal power allocation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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