Improved two-way double-relay selection technique for cooperative wireless communications

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Issam Maaz¹  Samer Alabed¹  Mohammad Al-Rabayah¹ 

[1] College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait;

关键词: Two-way relay networks;    Cooperative diversity techniques;    Distributed space-time coding;    Relay selection;    Network coding;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13638-020-01846-7

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In this article, a novel two-way double-relay selection strategy with its bit error rate (BER) performance analysis is proposed. In this novel strategy, as a first step we choose two relays out of a set of relay-nodes in a way to maximize the system performance in terms of BER and complexity. In the second step, the selected relays apply orthogonal space-time coding scheme using the three-phase protocol to establish a two-way communication between the transceivers, which will lead to a significant improvement in the achievable diversity and coding gain with a very low decoding complexity by using a symbol-wise decoder. Furthermore, the performance of the overall system is further enhanced through the use of a network coding method at the selected relay-nodes. Moreover, this paper proposes the analytical approximation of the BER performance. As well, we show that the analytical results match perfectly the simulated ones. In addition, we prove that our strategy outperforms the current state-of-the-art ones by proposing a better cooperative communication system in terms of BER.

【 授权许可】

CC BY