Abstract
The amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system considered here consists of a source node with M transmit antennas, and relay and destination nodes with a single antenna each. The closed-form expressions for the outage probabilities for maximum-ratio-transmission (MRT) at the source are presented for some specific values of M. Numerical results show that increasing M from 1 to 2 can achieve roughly a 3dB SNR gain, guaranteeing the same outage probability. However, we discover that for M 3, the additional gain compared to M = 2 decreases quickly as the SNR increases. Therefore, increasing M above 3 does not achieve significantly greater gain over M = 2 at high SNR.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 4786420 |
| Pages (from-to) | 633-637 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 Feb |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work is supported in part by the MKE (Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment) (IITA-2008-(C1090-0801-0011)), and in part by Korea Science & Engineering Foundation through the NRL Program (Grant R0A-2007-000-20043-0). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TWC.2009.071332
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Applied Mathematics