Abstract
Cooperative Diversity (CD) networks have been receiving a lot of attention recently as a distributed means of improving error performance and capacity. This paper derives the average Symbol Error Probability (SEP) for Amplify and Forward CD links. The resulting expressions are general as they hold for an arbitrary number of cooperating branches, arbitrary number of cooperating hops per branch, and many channel fading models. Their simplicity provides valuable insights to the performance of CD networks and allows their optimization. Besides revealing the diversity advantage, they clearly show from where this advantage comes from and prove that the diversity advantage holds independently of the channel fading model. Finally, they explain how diversity is improved in multi-hop CD networks.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3369-3373 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE International Conference on Communications |
| Volume | 6 |
| State | Published - Aug 30 2004 |
| Event | 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications - Paris, France Duration: Jun 20 2004 → Jun 24 2004 |
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Keywords
- Cooperative Diversity
- Fading
- Performance analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering