Max-max relay selection for relays with buffers

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1124-1135

  Ikhlef, Aissa ^a   Michalopoulos, Diomidis S ^a   Schober, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative relaying; error rate analysis; outage analysis; relay selection; relays with buffers

Indexed keywords

BEST-RELAY SELECTIONS; BUFFER SIZES; BUFFER STATE; CHANNEL STATE; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COOPERATIVE RELAYING; DATA LOSS; DECODE-AND-FORWARD PROTOCOLS; DIVERSITY GAIN; ERROR RATE ANALYSIS; FINITE SIZE; HALF-DUPLEX RELAY; HYBRID RELAYS; OUTAGE ANALYSIS; RELAY SELECTION; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SNR GAINS; SYMBOL ERROR PROBABILITIES (SEP); TRANSMISSION INTERVALS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 84858342202     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.011012.110682     Document Type: Article

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