End-to-end performance of transmission systems with relays over Rayleigh-fading channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Symbol error probabilities for general Cooperative links
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Distributed space-time-coded protocols for exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cooperative Strategies and Capacity Theorems for Relay Networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
On the achievable diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in half-duplex cooperative channels
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Fading relay channels: performance limits and space-time signal design
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Cooperative lattice coding and decoding in half-duplex channels
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Hybrid decode-amplify-forward cooperative communications with multiple relays
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Cooperative signaling with soft information combining
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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We investigate the performance of adaptive decode-forward (ADF), amplify-forward (AF), and hybrid decode-amplify-forward (HDAF) relaying protocol. Specifically, we derive the closed-form expression of symbol error probability (SEP) for these three relaying protocols. For the AF protocol, we derive a simpler and more tractable final result than previously published work. Furthermore, analyzing the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, we derive an asymptotically tight approximation for SEP. The approximation is used to assess an important aspect between the three different relaying protocols, i.e., the SEP performance gain of HADF over the two conventional relaying schemes ADF and AF. It is shown that the performance gain of HDAF over ADF and AF significantly depends on the relative value of channel conditions between source-to-relay and relay-to-destination links. Interestingly, it is shown that HDAF has no benefit compare to the two others if the relay is located close to the source. In contrast, the performance gains of HDAF over the ADF and AF scheme are remarkably large as the relay moves nearby the destination. Specifically, the numerical results given as well as our analysis indicate that for QPSK modulation, HDAF outperforms ADF and AF with a performance improvement by 5 dB and 6 dB, respectively.