Cooperative Communications with Outage-Optimal Opportunistic Relaying

  • Authors:
  • A. Bletsas;Hyundong Shin;M. Z. Win

  • Affiliations:
  • Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we present simple opportunistic relaying with decode-and-forward (DaF) and amplify-and-forward (AaF) strategies under an aggregate power constraint. In particular, we consider distributed relay-selection algorithms requiring only local channel knowledge. We show that opportunistic DaF relaying is outage-optimal, that is, it is equivalent in outage behavior to the optimal DaF strategy that employs all potential relays. We further show that opportunistic AaF relaying is outage-optimal among single-relay selection methods and significantly outperforms an AaF strategy based on equal-power multiple-relay transmissions with local channel knowledge. These findings reveal that cooperation offers diversity benefits even when cooperative relays choose not to transmit but rather choose to cooperatively listen; they act as passive relays and give priority to the transmission of a single opportunistic relay. Numerical and simulation results are presented to verify our analysis.