Performance of coded cooperative diversity with interference in Nakagami fading environments

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Abstract

Diversity is an effective technique in enhancing the link quality and increasing network capacity. When multiple antennas can not be used in mobile units, user cooperation can be employed to provide transmit diversity. In this paper, we analyze the error performance of coded cooperative diversity with multiple cooperating users over Nakagami fading channels under interference conditions. We derive the end-to-end bit error probability of coded cooperation (averaged over all cooperation scenarios). Results show that allowing more cooperating users improves the performance of the network under low loads, where two cooperating users suffice for highly loaded networks. Furthermore, the gains obtained by increasing the number of cooperating users decreases with increasing the network load.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)29-40
Number of pages12
JournalWireless Personal Communications
Volume43
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2007

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The author would like to acknowledge the support provided by KFUPM and the British Council Summer Research Program to conduct this research.This work was supported in part by the KFUPM and the British Council Summer Research Program.

Keywords

  • Coding diversity
  • Convolutional
  • Cooperation
  • Error probability
  • Fading
  • Interference
  • Nakagami
  • Rayleigh
  • Union bound

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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