• DocumentCode
    2900104
  • Title

    A Decentralized Power Allocation Scheme for Amplify-And-Forward Multi-Hop Relaying Systems

  • Author

    Farhadi, Golnaz ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-27 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    A decentralized power allocation scheme for amplify-and-forward (AF) multi-hop relaying systems is proposed. The scheme maximizes a harmonic mean-based approximate expression for the instantaneous received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The outage probability in Rayleigh fading of the proposed power-optimized system is evaluated. Numerical results show the superior performance of AF multi-hop relaying systems employing the proposed power allocation scheme over those with uniform power allocation. The asymptotic outage behavior for sufficiently large values of SNR is also studied and it is demonstrated that AF multi-hop relaying systems employing the proposed power allocation scheme achieve diversity order 2.
  • Keywords
    Batteries; Communications Society; Cooperative systems; Fading; Power system relaying; Power system reliability; Rayleigh channels; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications (ICC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • ISSN
    1550-3607
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6402-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICC.2010.5501940
  • Filename
    5501940