Title
An efficient cooperative transmission scheme using multiple relays incrementally
Abstract
We are motivated to exploit the broadcast nature of a radio medium in combating its unreliable and time-varying characteristics. This leads to cooperative transmission where a neighbor node keeps a copy of an overheard packet and helps in retransmitting the overheard packet to its intended destination when the original transmission fails. Cooperative transmission improve wireless network performance through diversity gain, and can be performed in the forms of amplify-and-forward. Existing amplify-and-forward schemes either: (a) use multiple relays but in a non-incremental way, or (b) use only a single relay in an incremental way. Non-incremental (simple) schemes do not provide a good spectral efficiency. Also, using multiple relays can further improve diversity. This paper aims at proposing an incremental amplify-and-forward scheme that uses n relays, where n >; 1. In the proposed scheme, a relay will retransmit an overheard packet in a time slot, only if all the previous transmissions are not successful. The transmission cycle of a packet ends as soon as a packet has been received successfully by the intended destination or all the n relays has retransmitted their overheard packets. Analytical and numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms both the simple amplify-and-forward scheme and the single-relay incremental scheme in terms of a lower outage probability for a given spectral efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5672064
Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
cooperative communication,diversity reception,packet radio networks,relays,time-varying channels,wireless channels,amplify-and-forward,cooperative retransmission,cooperative transmission scheme,diversity gain,overheard packet retransmission,relays,time-varying characteristics,wireless channel,wireless network
Diversity gain,Wireless network,Broadcasting,Wireless,Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Network packet,Computer network,Real-time computing,Spectral efficiency,Relay
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-8017-3
2
0.41
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dorin Panaitopol1325.54
Peng Yong Kong213318.92
Chen-Khong Tham392582.63
Jocelyn Fiorina48412.78