Towards the Optimal Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Diversity Scheme

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.903133zbMATH Open1325.94026arXivcs/0603123MaRDI QIDQ3548879FDOQ3548879

Authors: Sheng Yang, Jean-Claude Belfiore 

Publication date: 21 December 2008

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a slow fading channel, how to find a cooperative diversity scheme that achieves the transmit diversity bound is still an open problem. In fact, all previously proposed amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) schemes do not improve with the number of relays in terms of the diversity multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) for multiplexing gains r higher than 0.5. In this work, we study the class of slotted amplify-and-forward (SAF) schemes. We first establish an upper bound on the DMT for any SAF scheme with an arbitrary number of relays N and number of slots M. Then, we propose a sequential SAF scheme that can exploit the potential diversity gain in the high multiplexing gain regime. More precisely, in certain conditions, the sequential SAF scheme achieves the proposed DMT upper bound which tends to the transmit diversity bound when M goes to infinity. In particular, for the two-relay case, the three-slot sequential SAF scheme achieves the proposed upper bound and outperforms the two-relay non-orthorgonal amplify-and-forward (NAF) scheme of Azarian et al. for multiplexing gains r < 2/3. Numerical results reveal a significant gain of our scheme over the previously proposed AF schemes, especially in high spectral efficiency and large network size regime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603123

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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