Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S. in Engineering Science
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Mustafa Matalgah
Second Advisor
Dwight Waddell
Third Advisor
Ramanarayanan Viswanathan
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
In the past few years adaptive decode-and-forward cooperative diversity systems have been studied intensively in literature. Many schemes and protocols have been proposed to enhance the performance of the cooperative systems while trying to alleviate its drawbacks. One of the recent schemes that had been shown to give high improvements in performance is the best-relay selection scheme. In the best-relay selection scheme only one relaying nodes among the relays available in the system is selected to forward the source's message to the destination. The best relay is selected as the relay node that can achieve the highest end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (snr) at the destination node. Performance improvements have been reported as compared to regular fixed decode-and-forward relaying in which all relays are required to forward the source's message to the destination in terms of spectral efficiency and diversity order. In this thesis, we use simulations to show the improvement in the outage performance of the best-relay selection scheme.
Recommended Citation
Hagag, Adham Ahmed, "Adaptive Relay-Selection In Decode-And-Forward Cooperative Systems" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 970.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/970
Concentration/Emphasis
Emphasis: Electrical Engineering