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Buffer-aided max-link relay selection in amplify-and-forward cooperative networks

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posted on 2017-06-30, 10:43 authored by Zhao Tian, Gaojie Chen, Yu GongYu Gong, Zhi Chen, Jonathon Chambers
This paper investigates the outage performance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system that exploits buffer-aided max-link relay selection. Both asymmetric and symmetric source-to-relay and relay-to-destination channel configurations are considered. We derive the closed-form expressions for the outage probability and analyze the average packet delays. We prove that the diversity order is between N and 2N (where N is the relay number) , corresponding to a relay buffer size between 1 and ∞, respectively. We also analytically show the coding gain. Numerical results are given to verify the theoretical analyses.

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This work was supported in part by the Important National Science and Technology Specific Projects of China under Grant 2013ZX03001024.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volume

64

Issue

2

Pages

553 - 565

Citation

TIAN, Z. ... et al, 2014. Buffer-aided max-link relay selection in amplify-and-forward cooperative networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 64 (2), pp. 553-565.

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© IEEE

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2014

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ISSN

0018-9545

eISSN

1939-9359

Language

  • en

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