Outage probability of device-to-device communication assisted by one-way amplify-and-forward relaying

This study investigates the outage probability of device-to-device communication assisted by a relay node utilising a one-way amplify-and-forward relaying strategy. The authors assume that all the terminals are equipped with a single antenna and all the users know perfect channel state information. They first derive the exact closed-form expression for characterising the outage probability performance of the system. They subsequently discuss several special scenarios and obtain the asymptotic results for each of the considered scenarios. The results can be easily computed with only the channel statistics. Based on the analysis in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime, closed-form power allocation policies are developed to improve the outage probability performance. The author´s analytical results are validated via Monte Carlo computer simulations.