Amplify and Forward Relaying Systems for Collocated Antennas

• 作者: Mahmud Al-Naser Salem Salamah
• 来源期刊: 通讯、网络与系统学国际期刊(英文)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: Cooperative COMMUNICATIONS FADING CHANNELS RELAY ANTENNAS
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（7）
• 页码范围: 235-242
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: TN91

摘要

Cooperative relaying for a system that consists of different configurations of a collocated and uniform linear antenna is analyzed. The amplify-and-forward relaying (AF) and selection combining (S-AF) schemes based on maximal ratio combining (MRC) method for single- and multi-relay are investigated. In this study, the bit-error-rate (BER) expression for collocated and uniform linear antenna in cooperative communication system over flat Rayleigh fading channel is derived. The result for 3-element collocated antennas (tripole) shows improvement in performance over dual-polarized antennas. Also increasing number of tripole antenna does not add improvement.