TITLE:
Performance Analysis of an Adaptive Incremental Cooperative Relaying Scheme for Wireless Relay Networks
AUTHORS:
Shaoqing Wang, Kai Cui, Zhen Huang
KEYWORDS:
Cooperative Relaying, Adaptive Modulation Coding, Throughput, Packet Error Rate
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.10 No.8B,
August
14,
2017
ABSTRACT: In wireless relaying networks, the traditional incremental cooperative relaying scheme (IR) could improve the system throughput enormously over fading channels by exploiting relay nodes to retransmit the source data packet to the destination. In order to enhance the system throughput over time-varying fading channels, this paper proposes an adaptive incremental cooperative re-laying scheme (AIR) based on adaptive modulation and coding, which implements adaptive rate transmission for the source and relay nodes according to channel state information. We derive expressions for the AIR system throughput, and then give a gradient-based search algorithm to find the optimized adaptive solution for the AIR system by maximizing throughput subject to the constraint of packet error rate at the data link layer. The results indicate that throughput of AIR system outperforms that of traditional IR system greatly for any SNR value.