Performance Analysis of Incremental Selection Decode-and-Forward Relaying over Rayleigh Fading Channels

Selection decode-and-forward (DF) relaying and incremental relaying were introduced as efficient relaying protocols to increase capacity and performance of cooperative diversity networks. This paper proposes an incremental relaying in conjunction with selection DF and provides its performance in terms of outage probability and bit error probability. Our proposed protocol offers a good trade off between performance and channel resource with an appropriate given threshold. Simulations are performed to confirm our theoretical analysis.