TY - GEN
T1 - Relay selection from a battery energy efficiency perspective
AU - Zhang, Wenshu
AU - Duan, Dongliang
AU - Yang, Liuqing
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Relay network is proposed as a means of improving the error performance and energy efficiency of the wireless networks. Inspired by the battery power efficiency (BPE) analysis in [1], relay selection from the battery energy efficiency perspective turns out to be an interesting topic. Under the general network setup which integrates typical transmission and reception modules, we adopt the realistic nonlinear battery model, extend the BPE results in [1] to relay network over Rayleigh fading channels, investigate the optimum and suboptimum energy allocation solutions for the relaying transmission, and finally establish the relay selection criterion from the battery energy efficiency point of view. Both the theoretical derivation and numerical results show that, subject to the same average bit error rate (BER) performance constraint, relaying does not necessarily increase the system energy efficiency, but is a possible alternative of the direct transmission depending on the relaying situation. Additionally, we prove that the two relaying protocols Decode and Forward (DF) and Amplify and Forward (AF) are equivalent for relay selection over Rayleigh fading channels at high SNR.
AB - Relay network is proposed as a means of improving the error performance and energy efficiency of the wireless networks. Inspired by the battery power efficiency (BPE) analysis in [1], relay selection from the battery energy efficiency perspective turns out to be an interesting topic. Under the general network setup which integrates typical transmission and reception modules, we adopt the realistic nonlinear battery model, extend the BPE results in [1] to relay network over Rayleigh fading channels, investigate the optimum and suboptimum energy allocation solutions for the relaying transmission, and finally establish the relay selection criterion from the battery energy efficiency point of view. Both the theoretical derivation and numerical results show that, subject to the same average bit error rate (BER) performance constraint, relaying does not necessarily increase the system energy efficiency, but is a possible alternative of the direct transmission depending on the relaying situation. Additionally, we prove that the two relaying protocols Decode and Forward (DF) and Amplify and Forward (AF) are equivalent for relay selection over Rayleigh fading channels at high SNR.
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U2 - 10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379754
DO - 10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379754
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951469502
SN - 9781424452385
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM
BT - MILCOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Military Communications Conference
T2 - 2009 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2009
Y2 - 18 October 2009 through 21 October 2009
ER -