Cooperative diversity of distributed network beamforming under long-term power constraints

In this paper, we analyze the cooperative diversity of amplify-and-forward half-duplex relay networks under long-term power constraints. The system model we consider consists of one transmit-receive pair and an arbitrary number of relays. This paper analyzes bit error rate and network diversity for two different power distribution scenarios in network. Using the derived network error probability, the distributed signal to noise ratio for network is introduced.