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Outage Performance Analysis of Multicarrier Relay Selection for Cooperative Networks

Information Theory 2017-08-22 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the outage performance of two multicarrier relay selection schemes, i.e. bulk and per-subcarrier selections, for two-hop orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. To provide a comprehensive analysis, three forwarding protocols: decode-and-forward (DF), fixed-gain (FG) amplify-and-forward (AF) and variable-gain (VG) AF relay systems are considered. We obtain closed-form approximations for the outage probability and closed-form expressions for the asymptotic outage probability in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region for all cases. Our analysis is verified by Monte Carlo simulations, and provides an analytical framework for multicarrier systems with relay selection.

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@article{arxiv.1708.05868,
  title  = {Outage Performance Analysis of Multicarrier Relay Selection for Cooperative Networks},
  author = {Shuping Dang and Justin P. Coon and Gaojie Chen and David E. Simmons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05868},
  year   = {2017}
}