Robust collaborative-relay beamforming
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
A cooperative phase steering scheme in multi-relay node environments
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Blind amplify-and-forward relaying in multiple-antenna relay networks
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
IEEE Communications Letters
A joint source and relay power allocation scheme for a class of MIMO relay systems
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Phase compensation for uplink distributed space-time cooperative protocol
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Bandwidth-efficient cooperative MIMO relaying schemes
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Distributed space-frequency block coding for a 2-antenna relay in downlink OFDM systems
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Selection cooperation with transparent amplify-and-forward relaying in mimo relay channels
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Performance analysis of distributed transmission schemes in cooperative random networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
End-to-end performance of dual hop transmission with fixed relay
WTS'10 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Wireless telecommunications symposium
Near-optimal joint antenna selection for amplify-and-forward relay networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Analysis of a simple recruiting method for cooperative routes and strip networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Unified error analysis of dual-hop relay link in Nakagami- m fading channels
IEEE Communications Letters
Transparent amplify-and-forward relaying in MIMO relay channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Opportunistic cooperation for multi-antenna multi-relay networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Impact of antenna correlation on a new dual-hop MIMO AF relaying model
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special issue on cooperative MIMO multicell networks
Performance of transmitter preprocessing aided cooperative relaying with fixed infrastructure relays
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Multi-Antenna AF Two-Way Relaying Over Nakagami-$$m$$m Fading Channels
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Space, cost, and signal processing constraints, among others, often preclude the use of multiple antennas at wireless terminals. This paper investigates distributed decode-and-forward fixed relays (infrastructure-based relaying) which are engaged in cooperation in a two-hop wireless network as a means of removing the burden of multiple antennas on wireless terminals. In contrast to mobile terminals, the deployment of a small number of antennas on infrastructure-based fixed relays is feasible, thus, the paper examines the impact of multiple antennas on the performance of the distributed cooperative fixed relays. Threshold-based maximal ratio combining (MRC) and threshold-based selection combining (SC) of these multiple antenna signals are studied and analyzed. It is found that the end-to-end (E2E) error performance of a network which has few relays with many antennas is not significantly worse than that which has many relays each with a fewer antennas. Obviously, the former network has a tremendous deployment cost advantage over the latter. It is also observed that the E2E error performance of a network in which the multiple antennas at relays are configured in SC fashion is not significantly worse than that in which MRC is used. For implementation, SC presents a significantly lower complexity and cost than a full-blown MRC. The analysis in this paper uses the versatile Nakagami fading channels in contrast to the Rayleigh model used in most previous works