Symbol error probabilities for general cooperative links

Alejandro Ribeiro; Xiaodong Cai; Georgios B. Giannakis

doi:10.1109/icc.2004.1313169

Symbol error probabilities for general cooperative links

Alejandro Ribeiro, Xiaodong Cai, Georgios B. Giannakis

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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)
Pages (from-to)	3369-3373
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/icc.2004.1313169
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications - Paris, France Duration: Jun 20 2004 → Jun 24 2004

Keywords

Cooperative Diversity
Fading
Performance analysis

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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