• DocumentCode
    1480977
  • Title

    Effect of Multiple Antennas at the Destination on the Diversity Performance of Amplify-and-Forward Systems With Partial Relay Selection

  • Author

    Sun, Li ; Zhang, Taiyi ; Niu, Hao ; Wang, Junsong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´´an, China
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    631
  • Lastpage
    634
  • Abstract
    This letter considers the amplify-and-forward (AF) system consisting of a destination node with M antennas, and a source node and N relay nodes with a single antenna each. The “best” relay, which is selected depending on the instantaneous and partial channel knowledge, is assigned to assist the source transmission. By deriving the lower and upper bounds for the outage probability of the system, we show that the diversity order of min(M,N) can be achieved. This analysis gives a promising solution to improve the diversity performance of partial relay selection scheme.
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; diversity reception; probability; amplify-and-forward systems; channel knowledge; diversity performance; multiple antennas; outage probability; partial relay selection scheme; source transmission; Amplify-and-forward (AF); diversity order; partial relay selection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-9908
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LSP.2010.2049414
  • Filename
    5456182