Improving Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks: Optimal Power Allocation versus Selection
- 1 July 2006
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1234-1238
- https://doi.org/10.1109/isit.2006.262002
Abstract
We consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative diversity system where a source communicates with a destination with the help of multiple relay nodes. The conventional system assumes all relay nodes participate, with the available channel and power resources equally distributed over all nodes. This approach being clearly sub-optimal, we first present an optimal power allocation scheme to minimize the outage probability for an AF system. Next, we propose a new selection scheme where only one, the "best" relay node is chosen to participate in the transmission. We show that at reasonable power levels the selection AF scheme maintains full diversity order, and has significantly better outage behavior and average throughput than the conventional scheme or that with optimal power allocationKeywords
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