Title
Asymptotic performance of amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity networks with the Nth best relay over Rician fading channels.
Abstract
This paper analyzes and derives the asymptotic symbol error rate expression of amplify-and-forward cooperative communications with the Nth best relay over independent and non-identical Rician fading channels. Rician fading takes the line-of-sight effects into account and often exists in microcellular mobile and wireless mesh networks. In practice, the Nth best relay is selected when the best relay is unavailable because of fairness and load balancing issues. Performance analysis reveals that the diversity gain of the Nth best-relay scheme equals RN+2, while the best relay and all-participate schemes achieve the diversity gain of R+1, where R is the number of relays. Simulation and numerical evaluation show the tightness of the asymptotic symbol error rate expression and the accuracy of our theoretical analysis. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/ett.1534
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Keywords
Field
DocType
amplify-and-forward (AF),best relay,symbol error rate (SER),diversity gain,Rician fading,line-of-sight
Diversity gain,Load balancing (computing),Cooperative diversity,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Wireless mesh network,Engineering,Relay,Rician fading,Symbol error rate
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
4
2161-3915
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.54
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shao-I Chu1389.36
Hsin-Chiu Chang2337.58
Hung-Peng Lee3305.14