Threshold-Based Relay Selection for Detect-and-Forward Relaying in Cooperative Wireless Networks
EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, 2010 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
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- Basım Tarihi: 2010
- Doi Numarası: 10.1155/2010/721492
- Dergi Adı: EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
This paper studies two-hop cooperative demodulate-and-forward relaying using multiple relays in wireless networks. A threshold based relay selection scheme is considered, in which the reliable relays are determined by comparing source-relay SNR to a threshold, and one of the reliable relays is selected by the destination based on relay-destination SNR. The exact bit error rate of this scheme is derived, and a simple threshold function is proposed. It is shown that the network achieves full diversity order (N + 1) under the proposed threshold, where N is the number of relays in the network. Unlike some other full diversity achieving protocols in the literature, the requirement that the instantaneous/ average SNRs of the source-relay links be known at the destination is eliminated using the appropriate SNR threshold.