Performance of incremental AF relaying cooperative networks with the nth best relay over Rayleigh fading channels

Journal of Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1681-1688

  Zhang, Hao ^a,b   Wang, Xinjie ^a,c   Aaron Gulliver, T ^b   Shi, Wei ^a   Wang, Jingjing ^a,d  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; Cooperative networks; Fading channels; Incremental relaying; Nth best relay

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE PROTOCOLS; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; INCREMENTAL RELAYING; NTH BEST RELAY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; FADING CHANNELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84881527132     PISSN: 17962056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jnw.8.8.1681-1688     Document Type: Article

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