On the performance of QO-STBC in cooperative communication with relay selection

Author

Sutthisangiam, Nikorn ; Pirak, Chaiyod

Author_Institution

Commun. Eng. Program, King Mongkut´´s Univ. of Technol. North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 May 2010

Firstpage

1177

Lastpage

1180

Abstract

In this paper, the proposed quasi-orthogonal space time block code (QO-STBC) cooperative communications with relay selection is investigated. The proposed QO-STBC coded cooperative communications provide a good relay selection strategy such that the diversity of four is achieved. In addition, a code rate of the proposed scheme is twice the ordinary cooperative communications. Computer simulation results show a significant probability of error performance improvement of about 4 dB over the conventional decode and forward protocol.

Keywords

block codes; protocols; radiocommunication; space-time codes; QO-STBC; cooperative communication; decode protocol; forward protocol; quasi-orthogonal space time block code; relay selection; Block codes; Broadcasting; Decoding; MIMO; Relays; Space technology; Streaming media; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; Cooperative communication; QO-STBC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics Computer Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chaing Mai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5606-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5607-9

Type

conf

Filename

5491663