TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient demodulation in cooperative schemes using decode-and-forward relays
AU - Wang, Tairan
AU - Cano, Alfonso
AU - Giannakis, Georgios B.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Cooperative communication systems using various relay strategies can achieve spatial diversity gains, enhance coverage and potentially increase capacity. For the practically attractive decode-and-forward (DF) relay strategy, we derive an efficient demodulator at the destination in the form of a weighted combiner. The weights are selected adaptively to account for the quality of both source-relay-destination and source-destination links. Analysis proves that the novel demodulator can achieve the maximum possible diversity, regardless of the underlying constellation. Its error performance tightly bounds that of maximumlikelihood (ML) demodulation which provably quantifies the diversity gain of ML detection with DF relaying. Simulations corroborate our theoretical analyses and compare performance of the novel decoder with existing diversity-achieving strategies including analog amplify-and-forward and selective-relaying.
AB - Cooperative communication systems using various relay strategies can achieve spatial diversity gains, enhance coverage and potentially increase capacity. For the practically attractive decode-and-forward (DF) relay strategy, we derive an efficient demodulator at the destination in the form of a weighted combiner. The weights are selected adaptively to account for the quality of both source-relay-destination and source-destination links. Analysis proves that the novel demodulator can achieve the maximum possible diversity, regardless of the underlying constellation. Its error performance tightly bounds that of maximumlikelihood (ML) demodulation which provably quantifies the diversity gain of ML detection with DF relaying. Simulations corroborate our theoretical analyses and compare performance of the novel decoder with existing diversity-achieving strategies including analog amplify-and-forward and selective-relaying.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33847622115
SN - 1424401313
SN - 9781424401314
T3 - Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
SP - 1051
EP - 1055
BT - Conference Record of The Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
T2 - 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Y2 - 28 October 2005 through 1 November 2005
ER -