Cooperative communications with relay-selection: When to cooperate and whom to cooperate with?

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2814-2827

  Ibrahim, Ahmed S ^a,b   Sadek, Ahmed K ^a,c   Su, Weifeng ^a,d   Liu, K J Ray ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^d State University of New York at Buffalo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative diversity; Decode and forward cooperative protocol; Multi node wireless relay networks; Optimal relay selection

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER NETWORKS; PHOTOELECTRIC RELAYS; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCIES; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY; COOPERATIVE SCHEMES; DECODE-AND-FORWARD COOPERATIVE PROTOCOL; DESTINATION CHANNELS; DIVERSITY ORDERS; FULL DIVERSITIES; HARMONIC MEANS; MULTI-NODE WIRELESS RELAY NETWORKS; OPTIMAL RELAY SELECTION; PARTIAL CHANNEL STATE INFORMATIONS; SYMBOL ERROR RATES; UPPER BOUNDS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 48149090566     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070176     Document Type: Article

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