The paper studies the capacity of the OFDM and the OFDMA relay networks. Two relay schemes, amplify-and-forward (AF) relay and decode-and-forward (DF) relay are analyzed and compared for both OFDM and OFDMA relay networks. A relay node selection algorithm is proposed for OFDMA relay network. Numerical results show that under small relay power transmission, AF outperforms DF while the opposite i...

The performance of an anonymous path can be described using many network metrics – e.g., bandwidth, latency, jitter, loss, etc. However, existing relay selection algorithms have focused exclusively on producing paths with high bandwidth. In contrast to traditional node-based path techniques in which relay selection is biased by relays’ node-characteristics (i.e., bandwidth), this paper presents...

In this paper, optimal power allocation and relay selection strategies in energy harvesting cooperative wireless networks are studied. In particular, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-maximizing based power allocation and relay selection without and with energy cooperation—via wireless energy transfer—are considered. Moreover, total relay power minimization subject to target end-to-end SNR is investi...

Supportive wireless communication relay network in OFDMbased systems have shown to expand performance in countless system using digital modulation techniques as a form of spatial diversity, but are not gladly available cp-operative variety for M –ary QAM OFDM based system where the best relay only participates in the relaying. In this paper we compute the error rate performance of cooperative V...

Abstract—In this paper, the symbol error rate (SER) and the bit error rate (BER) of orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) and their achievable capacity over an amplify-andforward (AF) relay channel with multiple antennas at source and destination and single antenna at relay node are investigated. Considered are receive antenna selection, transmit antenna selection, and joint antenna select...

This paper analyzes the performance of cooperative amplify-and-forward (CAF) relay networks that employ adaptive M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM)/M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK) digital modulation techniques in Nakagami-m fading channel. In particular, we present and compared the analysis of CAF relay networks with different cooperative diversity and opportunistic routing strategi...

One-way wireless relay networks have recently received a lot of attention due to their ability to provide spatial diversity in fadingwireless environment.Moreover, performing single-relay selection is a very attractive method due to its cost effective implementation and superior performance. However, one-way relay networks with the half-duplex signalling suffer from a spectral efficiency loss. ...

We analyze the existing trade-offs in terms of system performance versus fairness of a cooperative system based on opportunistic relay selection (ORS) and with outdated channel state information (CSI). In particular, system performance is analytically evaluated in terms of outage probability, and the fairness behavior is assessed based on the power consumption at the different relays. In order ...