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Optimal Power Allocation and Best Relay Positioning in Opportunistic Incremental Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative System

Shuai Li1,3, Ping Li1, Zhiquan Bai2 , Peng Gao2, and Gong Peng1
1.National Key Laboratory of Mechatronic Engineering and Control, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
2.School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China
3.Key Lab. of Higher Education of Sichuan Province for Enterprise Informationlization and Internet of Things, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China

Abstract—In this paper, aiming to minimize the system outage probability in the condition of limited total power consumption, we study the optimal power allocation and relay positioning of the opportunistic incremental Amplify-and-Forward (OIAF) cooperative system over Rayleigh fading channels with the utilization of convex optimization theory. The analysis of the outage probability and bit error rate (BER) performance is provided. Moreover, we also provide the analysis about the impact of information rate R on the BER performance under certain conditions when the number of the relays, the relay position and also the total power vary. Simulation results show that the proposed joint power optimization and best relay positioning scheme has advantages over other schemes in outage performance.

Index Terms—Cooperative communication; amplify-and-forward; opportunistic incremental relay; optimal power allocation, relay positioning

Cite: Shuai Li, Ping Li, Zhiquan Bai, Peng Gao, and Gong Peng, "Optimal Power Allocation and Best Relay Positioning in Opportunistic Incremental Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative System," Journal of Communications, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 404-410, 2014. Doi: 10.12720/jcm.9.5.404-410

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