Two-user cooperative diversity strategies and their performance analysis

This paper investigates three kinds of cooperative communication strategies, they are the traditional cooperative forwarding strategy, network coding cooperative communication strategy and space-time block coding (STBC) cooperative communication strategy. The outage probability and bit error rate (BER) of these three kinds of communication strategies were researched. The simulation results show that, compared to non-cooperative communication, cooperative communication strategies have lower probability, the network coding cooperative communication strategy has the lowest outage probability, and the STBC cooperative communication strategy has the lowest BER.