Performance Analysis of Decode and Forward Incremental Relaying in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Interference

Author

Alkheir, Ala Abu ; Ibnkahla, Mohamed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. (ECE), Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This article studies the performance of Decode and Forward Incremental Relaying (DF-IR) in the presence of multiple dissimilar sources of Co-Channel Interference (CCI) at both, the relay and the destination. In particular, we consider the case where all links experience flat Rayleigh fading with K_r and K_d sources of CCI affecting the relay and the destination, respectively. The performance is studied in terms of three performance metrics, the normalized average spectral efficiency, the outage probability, and the error probability. The derived results unveil the incurred losses due to CCI. The accuracy of these results were verified using intensive Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Rayleigh channels; cochannel interference; decode and forward communication; error statistics; probability; relay networks (telecommunication); CCI; DF-IR; cochannel interference; decode and forward incremental relaying; error probability; flat Rayleigh fading channel; intensive Monte Carlo simulations; multiple dissimilar sources; normalized average spectral efficiency; outage probability; Error probability; Interference; Measurement; Performance analysis; Protocols; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1880-8

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2012.6399326

Filename

6399326