Title :
Toward Distributed Relay Selection for Opportunistic Amplify-and-Forward Transmission
Author :
Tourki, Kamel ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
Author_Institution :
ECEN Program, Texas A&M Univ. at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Abstract :
Opportunistic relaying in cooperative communication depends on careful relay selection. However the traditional centralized method used for opportunistic Amplify-and-Forward (OAF) protocols requires precise measurements of channel state information (CSI) at the destination (CSI-OAF). In this paper, we propose a distributed relay selection framework for opportunistic AF (D-OAF) cooperative communications and offer an accurate performance analysis based on exact statistics of the local signal to-noise ratios of the best relay. Furthermore, we validate our analysis by showing that performance simulation results coincide with our analytical results over different network architectures, and we compare our new results with their CSI-based counter parts.
Keywords :
amplify and forward communication; protocols; centralized method; channel state information; distributed relay selection; local signal to-noise ratios; opportunistic amplify-and-forward cooperative communication; opportunistic amplify-and-forward transmission protocol; opportunistic relaying; Fading; Performance analysis; Protocols; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Simulation; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8332-7
DOI :
10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956175