Generalized Analysis of Dual-Hop DF Opportunistic Relaying with Randomly Distributed Relays

Author

Behnad, Aydin ; Rabiei, A.M. ; Beaulieu, Norman C. ; Hajizadeh, H.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Jun-13

Firstpage

1057

Lastpage

1060

Abstract

The performance of dual-hop opportunistic relaying with randomly distributed decode-and-forward relays is investigated. The relays are assumed to be distributed according to a two-dimensional homogeneous Poisson point process, in contrast to most of the existing literature where the locations of relays are assumed to be known and deterministic. An exact expression for the outage probability of this cooperative system is derived for general fading environments. The expression is then specialized to the case where the transmission channels are modeled as Rayleigh fading channels.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; probability; relay networks (telecommunication); Rayleigh fading channel; cooperative system; distributed decode-and-forward relay; dual-hop DF opportunistic relaying; outage probability; randomly distributed relay; transmission channel; two-dimensional homogeneous Poisson point process; Cooperative systems; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Biangular coordinates; Poisson point process (PPP); cooperative diversity; decode-and-forward; opportunistic relaying; outage probability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2013.050313.122500

Filename

6515497