TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunistic decode-and-forward relaying with beamforming in two-wave with diffuse power fading
AU - Lu, Yao
AU - Yang, Nan
AU - Dai, Huaiyu
AU - Wang, Xiaoxiang
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we propose new opportunistic decode-and-forward (DF) relaying with beamforming for multirelay networks, where an N s-antenna source communicates with an N d-antenna destination with the aid of N parallel single-antenna relays. Among these relays, only one relay that correctly decodes the signal from the source and has the highest instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the destination is selected for transmission. The source employs maximum ratio transmission (MRT) to transmit, whereas the destination performs maximum ratio combining (MRC) to the received signals. To examine the benefits of the proposed scheme, we first derive the exact outage probability for independently but nonidentically distributed (i.n.i.d.) two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading channels. We then derive an easy-to-compute expression for the exact outage probability to reduce computational cost. Our results encompass Rayleigh and Rician fading as special cases. We further derive a compact expression for the asymptotic outage probability, which characterizes two factors governing the network performance at high SNRs, i.e., the diversity order and the array gain. We demonstrate that our scheme preserves the maximum diversity order of N × min{N s,N d}. Additionally, we derive the optimal power allocation factor, which provides a practical design rule to optimally distribute the total transmission power between the source and the selected relay to minimize the outage probability.
AB - In this paper, we propose new opportunistic decode-and-forward (DF) relaying with beamforming for multirelay networks, where an N s-antenna source communicates with an N d-antenna destination with the aid of N parallel single-antenna relays. Among these relays, only one relay that correctly decodes the signal from the source and has the highest instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the destination is selected for transmission. The source employs maximum ratio transmission (MRT) to transmit, whereas the destination performs maximum ratio combining (MRC) to the received signals. To examine the benefits of the proposed scheme, we first derive the exact outage probability for independently but nonidentically distributed (i.n.i.d.) two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading channels. We then derive an easy-to-compute expression for the exact outage probability to reduce computational cost. Our results encompass Rayleigh and Rician fading as special cases. We further derive a compact expression for the asymptotic outage probability, which characterizes two factors governing the network performance at high SNRs, i.e., the diversity order and the array gain. We demonstrate that our scheme preserves the maximum diversity order of N × min{N s,N d}. Additionally, we derive the optimal power allocation factor, which provides a practical design rule to optimally distribute the total transmission power between the source and the selected relay to minimize the outage probability.
KW - Decode and forward (DF)
KW - multiple-input multiple-output
KW - opportunistic relaying
KW - optimal power allocation
KW - two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading
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U2 - 10.1109/TVT.2012.2205028
DO - 10.1109/TVT.2012.2205028
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-9545
VL - 61
SP - 3050
EP - 3060
JO - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
JF - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IS - 7
M1 - 6220280
ER -