High performance static and dynamic cooperative communication protocols for the half duplex fading relay channel

  • Authors:
  • Narayan Prasad;Mahesh K. Varanasi

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Two novel communication protocols for the quasi-static coherent fading relay channel are proposed and analyzed under the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff framework. Both these protocols satisfy the half-duplex constraint and fall under the class of decode and forward (DF) protocols, wherein the relay node attempts to decode the source signal and if successful transmits the re-encoded signal. The first protocol is a static DF protocol where the relay waits for a fixed, channel independent duration before attempting to decode. It is shown that it achieves a tradeoff curve that uniformly improves upon those of the previously best known static half-duplex protocols, which are the NAF protocol [1] and the STC3 protocol [2]. Our second protocol is a dynamic DF protocol where the relay waits for a dynamic, channel dependent duration before attempting to decode and it is shown to achieve a tradeoff curve that uniformly improves upon the previously proposed half-duplex dynamic DF protocol of [1].