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8 - Relay selection: when to cooperate and with whom

from Part II - Cooperative communications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

K. J. Ray Liu
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Ahmed K. Sadek
Affiliation:
Qualcomm, San Diego, California
Weifeng Su
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Buffalo
Andres Kwasinski
Affiliation:
Texas Instruments, Germantown, Maryland
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In this chapter, we present a cooperative protocol based on the relay-selection technique using the availability of the partial channel state information (CSI) at the source and the relays. The main objective of this scheme is to achieve higher bandwidth efficiency while guaranteeing the same diversity order as in a conventional cooperative scheme. Two cooperation scenarios are addressed: a single-relay scenario and a multi-relay scenario. In the single-relay scenario, the focus is to answer the question: “When to cooperate?” The rationale behind this protocol is that there is no need for the relay to forward the source's information if the direct link, between the source and destination, is of high quality. It turns out that an appropriate metric to represent the relay's ability to help is a modified version of the harmonic mean function of its source–relay and relay–destination instantaneous channel gains. The source decides when to cooperate by taking the ratio between the source–destination channel gain and the relay's metric and comparing it with a threshold, which is referred to as the cooperation threshold. If this ratio is greater than or equal to the cooperation threshold, then the source sends its information to the destination directly without the need for the relay. Otherwise, the source employs the relay in forwarding its information to the destination as in the conventional cooperative scheme.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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