Cooperative diversity has emerged as a promising technique to combat fading in wireless communications (Sendonaris et. al., 2003a; Sendonaris et. al., 2003b). It is based on the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and enables single-antenna users to “enjoy” space diversity benefits by sharing their physical resources through a virtual transmit and/or receive antenna array. The basic relay c...

This paper studies optimal power allocation to minimize symbol error rate (SER) of amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity networks. First, we analytically solve optimal power allocation problem to minimize SER for three different scenarios, namely, multi-branch single-relay, single-branch multi-relay and multi-branch multi-relay cooperative diversity networks, all subject to a given total re...