One of the main features of IEEE 802.16m is the relay transmission which could not only extend the service coverage, but also improve the quality-of-service (QoS) to the mobile stations. In this paper, we consider the cooperation among relay stations and mobile stations to improve the performance of relay transmission in IEEE 802.16m network. In this case, the relay stations and mobile stations...

This paper presents an optimal solution for amplify-and-forward (AF) single-input multiple-output (SIMO) and multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless distributed relay networks. The optimal solutions are determined based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion for optimum nondiagonal and diagonal relay amplifying matrices under the transmit power constraints at the relays. The bit err...

The performance of cooperative network can be increased by using relay selection technique. Therefore, interest in relay selection is sloping upward. We proposed two new relay selection schemes based on fuzzy logic for dual hop cooperative communication. These relay selection schemes require SNR (signal to noise ratio), cooperative gain and channel gain as input fuzzy parameters for selection o...

In this paper, we formulate relay selection into a Chinese restaurant game. A secure relay selection strategy is proposed for a wireless network, where multiple source nodes send messages to their destination nodes via several relay nodes, which have different processing and transmission capabilities as well as security properties. The relay selection utilizes a learning-based algorithm for the...

Relay selection schemes for cooperative communications to achieve full cooperative diversity gains while maintaining spectral and energy efficiency have been extensively studied in recent research. These schemes select only the best relay from multiple relaying candidates to cooperate with a communication link. In this paper, we review recently proposed cooperative communication protocols which...

With the fast development of communication networks, cooperative communication has been more widely used in many different fields, such as satellite networks, broadcast networks, internet and so on. Therefore relay channels have been playing a pivotal role since their definitions were proposed by Van-der Meulen. However, the general achievable rate region of a relay channel is still unknown whi...

Relay selection has been regarded as an effective method to improve the performance of cooperative communication system. However, frequent operation of relay selection can bring enormous control message overhead and thereby decrease the performance of cooperative communication. To reduce the relay selection frequency, in this paper, we propose a relay selection scheme to choose the best relay w...

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is a promising new solution to provide a perpetual lifetime for energy constrained nodes in wireless networks. In this paper, we consider a wireless sensor relay network, where relay nodes forward a radio frequency (RF) signal from a source node to a destination node by first harvesting energy from the RF signal. For multiple relay no...

This paper explores the relay selection scheme for two-way relay channels with physical layer network coding (PNC), where two end nodes exchange information via a selected relay node with the minimal symbol error rate (SER) performance among multiple candidate relay nodes. To reduce the computational complexity, we also propose a suboptimal minimal SER-based relay selection. The end-to-end SER ...