BER performance analysis of cooperative DaF relay networks and a new optimal DaF strategy

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1044-1049

  Ropokis, George A ^a   Rontogiannis, Athanasios A ^a   Berberidis, Kostas ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

BER performance; Cooperative networks; detect and forward; regenerative relays

Indexed keywords

BER EXPRESSION; BER PERFORMANCE; BIT ERROR RATE PERFORMANCE; CLOSED FORM; COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; DETECT-AND-FORWARD; REGENERATIVE RELAYS; RELAY NETWORK; SYMBOL-DECISION; TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS;

OPTIMIZATION;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 79955468354     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.020811.101344     Document Type: Article

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