Amplify-and-forward partial relay selection with feedback delay

Author

Soysa, Madushanka ; Suraweera, Himal A. ; Tellambura, Chintha ; Garg, Hari K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

28-31 March 2011

Firstpage

1304

Lastpage

1309

Abstract

This paper evaluates the impact of using outdated channel estimates due to feedback delay for relay selection and signal amplification on the performance of partial relay selection with amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. Both variable and fixed gain AF schemes are considered. Expressions for the system´s outage probability and the average bit error rate, and their high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) approximations are derived. The effect of parameters such as the rank of relay chosen, SNR imbalance and the correlation between the delayed and current channel state information are studied and verified through simulations.

Keywords

amplify and forward communication; error statistics; feedback; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; amplify-and-forward relay; average bit error rate; channel state information; feedback delay; outage probability; outdated channel estimates; partial relay selection; signal amplification; signal-to-noise ratio approximations; Approximation methods; Bit error rate; Correlation; Delay; Gain; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cancun, Quintana Roo

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-255-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779318

Filename

5779318