Title :
Opportunistic Virtual Antenna Array with Optimal Relay Mobile Terminals Selection
Author :
Zhang, Peng ; Wang, Furong ; Tu, Lai ; Li, Kewei ; Diouba, Sacko ; Khider, Ibrahim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
Most literature about cooperative diversity focus on ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we study cooperative diversity in cellular networks. Our work is based upon virtual antenna arrays (VAA). We show that VAA is superior not only in maximum mutual information but also in outage probability performance. We also propose a distributed method to select multiple relay mobile terminals (MTs) in opportunistic way.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; antenna arrays; cellular radio; diversity reception; ad-hoc networks; cellular networks; cooperative diversity; multiple relay mobile terminals; opportunistic virtual antenna arrays; optimal relay mobile terminals selection; 3G mobile communication; Antenna arrays; Base stations; Land mobile radio cellular systems; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Mutual information; Protocols; Relays; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.75
