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A Simple Distributed Antenna Processing Scheme for Cooperative Diversity

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A Simple Distributed Antenna Processing Scheme for Cooperative Diversity
Abstract--In this letter the performance of multiple relay channels is analyzed for the situation in which multiple antennas are deployed only at the relays. The simple repetition-coded decodeand-forward protocol with two different antenna processing techniques at the relays is investigated. The antenna combining techniques are maximum ratio combining (MRC) for reception and transmit beamforming (TB) for transmission. It is shown that these distributed antenna combining techniques can exploit the full spatial diversity of the relay channels regardless of the number of relays and antennas at each relay, and offer significant power gain over distributed space-time coding techniques.
Yijia Fan, Abdulkareem Adinoyi, John S. Thompson,
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where CORR
Authors Yijia Fan, Abdulkareem Adinoyi, John S. Thompson, Halim Yanikomeroglu, H. Vincent Poor
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