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Effects of Nodes Geometry and Power Allocation in Space-Time Coded Cooperative Wireless Systems

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Cooperative communications are effective in improving the performance and extend the coverage of wireless networks. One issue is to find proper methods to allocate cooperative nodes. In this paper we investigate the effects of relay position and power allocation strategy in cooperative communications employing space-time codes (STCs). We consider non-ideal links between source, relay, and destination enabling the analysis of relay allocation problem based on the performance of each link in realistic scenarios. The frame error rate for various channel conditions, available diversity, relay positions, and transmitted power levels is obtained. Both the situation of balanced and unbalanced transmit power levels for source, relay, and destination are compared. Cooperative pragmatic STCs in block fading channel (BFC) are considered for our analysis. The results provide insight on how to allocate relay nodes based on geometry, link quality, and transmitted power considerations.

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  1. Different linear modulation mappings are analyzed in [6] with reference to the properties of the error probability functions.

  2. We assume CRC perfectly recognizing if a codeword is correctly decoded.

  3. As well known, nonperfect CSI at the receiver leads to some performance degradation, but this is not within the scope of paper investigation.

  4. For the sake of simplicity we assume N and B such that L is an integer.

  5. The concept of outage probability in wireless communications is well known. For application to digital communications with a given target error probability see, e.g., [3, 5].

  6. And \(x_\text{S}=x_\text{t}\) if no useful solution is found.

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The authors would like to thank Prof. M. Chiani for helpful discussions.

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  1. ENDIF and CNIT, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44100, Ferrara, Italy

    Luca Zuari, Andrea Conti & Velio Tralli

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Invited paper which was presented in part at IEEE ISWCS 2009. Research supported by the FP7 European project OPTIMIX (Grant 214625). Work inspired in the context of the FP7 European Network of Excellence NEWCOM+ + (contact no. 216715) WP6.

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Zuari, L., Conti, A. & Tralli, V. Effects of Nodes Geometry and Power Allocation in Space-Time Coded Cooperative Wireless Systems. Mobile Netw Appl 16, 600–612 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-010-0263-5

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