Performance Analysis with Partial Relay Selection in Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks

Author

Chen, Xianming ; Cai, Yueming ; Cai, Chunxiao

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Eng., PLAUST, Nanjing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

14-15 May 2011

Firstpage

390

Lastpage

392

Abstract

This paper studies the performance with partial relay selection in amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative networks, where the relay node is selected depending on the instantaneous channel information of source-relay hop. The channels are independent but not identically distributed Rayleigh fading distributed. We obtain the exact outage probability expression and symbol error rate (SER) expression in this system. Our results are verified through comparison with Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; amplify and forward communication; cooperative communication; probability; Monte Carlo simulations; SER expression; amplify-and-forward cooperative networks; distributed Rayleigh fading channel; instantaneous channel information; outage probability expression; partial relay selection; source-relay hop; symbol error rate; Error analysis; Fading; Monte Carlo methods; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Simulation; Wireless sensor networks; Outage probability; amplify-and-forward; partial relay selection; symbol error rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Information Security (NCIS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-347-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCIS.2011.176

Filename

5948859