Buffer-aided relay selection for cooperative diversity systems without delay constraints

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1957-1967

  Krikidis, Ioannis ^a   Charalambous, Themistoklis ^b   Thompson, John S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

buffers; Cooperative networks; Markov chain; outage probability; relay channel; relay selection

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY SYSTEMS; COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE WIRELESS NETWORKS; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; DELAY CONSTRAINTS; DIVERSITY GAIN; LARGE BUFFER; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RELAY BUFFERS; RELAY CHANNELS; RELAY NODE; RELAY SELECTION; STATE TRANSITION MATRIX; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WIRELESS LINK;

PROBABILITY; RAILROAD CAR BUFFERS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84861461183     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.032712.111970     Document Type: Article

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