Error-rate performance analysis of incremental decode-and-forward opportunistic relaying
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ArticleKAUST Department
Electrical Engineering ProgramPhysical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) Division
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Communication Theory Lab
Date
2011-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561793
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In this paper, we investigate an incremental opportunistic relaying scheme where the selected relay chooses to cooperate only if the source-destination channel is of an unacceptable quality. In our study, we consider regenerative relaying in which the decision to cooperate is based on a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold and takes into account the effect of the possible erroneously detected and transmitted data at the best relay. We derive a closed-form expression for the end-to-end bit-error rate (BER) of binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation based on the exact probability density function (PDF) of each hop. Furthermore, we evaluate the asymptotic error performance and the diversity order is deduced. We show that performance simulation results coincide with our analytical results. © 2011 IEEE.Sponsors
This work was supported by the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of the Qatar Foundation).ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/TCOMM.2011.041111.090285