Effects of Multiple Antennas on Outage Performance of Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Networks with Relay Selection

Wooju LEE  Dongweon YOON  Zhengyuan XU 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E94-B  No.11  pp.3155-3159
Publication Date: 2011/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
cooperative communication,  decode-and-forward,  selective relaying,  outage probability,  diversity-multiplexing tradeoff, 

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Summary: 
In this paper, we consider multiple source and destination antennas based on relay selection scheme to improve the end-to-end outage performance for decode-and-forward cooperative networks. We derive an exact closed-form expression of the outage probability for the proposed system over a Rayleigh fading channel and describe the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of the system. We then analyze the effects of the number of source and destination antennas on the outage probabilities and diversity-multiplexing tradeoffs.