Title
Opportunistic cooperation and optimal power allocation for wireless sensor networks
Abstract
Cooperative communications is a promising technology to improve the performance of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, a dual-hop wireless cooperative network with opportunistic amplify-and-forward relaying is investigated over independent and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels. Due to the complicated form of the probability density function of the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the symbol error rate and outage probability expressions are difficult to obtain in closed form. Taking advantage of Maclaurin series expansion of the probability density function of the output instantaneous SNR, we present the asymptotic symbol error rate and outage probability expressions at medium and high SNR regions, and the optimal power allocation scheme between the source and opportunistic relay is also proposed to minimize the outage probability. Simulation results demonstrate that the derived symbol error rate and outage probability matches well with the Monte-Carlo simulations. In addition, it is verified that the optimal power allocation scheme outperforms the equal power allocation scheme in terms of outage probability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TCE.2010.5606344
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
complicated form,symbol error rate,optimal power allocation scheme,equal power allocation scheme,outage probability,wireless sensor network,outage probability expression,opportunistic cooperation,high snr region,closed form,asymptotic symbol error rate,probability density function,series expansion,wireless sensor networks,protocols,signal to noise ratio,fading channel,monte carlo simulations,monte carlo methods,fading,monte carlo simulation,resource management
Wireless,Fading,Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Nakagami distribution,Probability density function,Wireless sensor network,Relay
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
56
3
0098-3063
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
24
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Runping Yuan1223.28
Taiyi Zhang217617.60
Jianxiong Huang3223.97
Li Sun430632.86