Performance analysis of a novel cooperative transmission scheme in wireless networks

Authors

Van Khuong H., Lien P.H., Kong H.Y.

Source title

International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT

Publication year
2008
Abstract

Cooperative transmission is an efficient solution to improve the performance of wireless communications over fading channels without the need for physical co-located antenna arrays. Current cooperative transmission schemes for two users can only achieve maximum diversity order of 2. In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative transmission scheme with amplify-and-forward relay which can obtain the diversity order of 3. Its closed-form BER expression is also derived and confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulations. A variety of simulated and numerical results under flat Rayleigh fading channel plus AWGN (Additive White Gaussian Noise) shows that the proposed scheme saves a significant amount of consumed power compared to non-cooperation counterpart subject to the same BER performance and bandwidth efficiency.