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Outage probability and channel capacity for the N th best relay selection AF relaying over INID Rayleigh fading channels
Author(s) -
Ko K.,
Woo C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.1357
Subject(s) - relay , rayleigh fading , channel state information , computer science , fading , relay channel , channel (broadcasting) , cooperative diversity , upper and lower bounds , telecommunications , topology (electrical circuits) , computer network , signal to noise ratio (imaging) , maximal ratio combining , node (physics) , wireless , algorithm , mathematics , engineering , physics , mathematical analysis , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , combinatorics , structural engineering
SUMMARY Cooperative diversity systems have recently been proposed as a way to form virtual antenna schemes without utilizing collocated multiple antennas. In this paper, we consider the N th best opportunistic amplify‐and‐forward (AF) cooperative diversity systems. The AF type can be regarded as one on the basis of modified channel state information. Wireless channels between any pair of nodes (i.e., direct and dual hop links) are assumed quasi‐static independent and nonidentically distributed (INID) Rayleigh fading. The best opportunistic AF (OAF) scheme requires two phases of transmission. During the first phase, the source node transmits a signal to all relays and the destination. In the second phase, the best relay is only selected on the basis of highest signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) scheme to forward the source signal to the destination. Therefore, the indirect link (i.e., source‐selected relay destination) can give the highest received SNR. However, the best relay selection cannot be available so that we might choose the second, third, or generally the N th best relay. In this paper, we derive the approximated outage probability and channel capacity for the N th best OAF relay systems over INID Rayleigh fading channels. At first, the indirect link's received SNR is approximated as harmonic mean upper bound. With this information, we obtain the given relay's N th best selection probability as the closed form. Finally, both outage probability and channel capacity are derived as the closed forms. Simulation results are finally presented to validate the analysis. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.