Diversity in relaying protocols with amplify and forward


YÜKSEL TURGUT A. M., Erkip E.

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 03), San-Francisco, Costa Rica, 1 - 05 December 2003, pp.2025-2029 identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/glocom.2003.1258592
  • City: San-Francisco
  • Country: Costa Rica
  • Page Numbers: pp.2025-2029
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

We examine a network consisting of one source, one destination and two amplifying and forwarding relays and consider a scenario in which destination and relays can have various processing limitations. For all possible diversity combining schemes at the relays and at the destination, we find diversity order results analytically and confirm our findings through numerical calculations of bit error rate (BER) versus signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) curves. We compare our results with direct transmission, well known transmit diversity methods and traditional multihop transmission and conclude that diversity reception in multihop networks provides the lowest error rate.