Amplify-and-Forward Selection Cooperation over Rayleigh Fading Channels with Imperfect CSI
Mehdi Seyfi, Sami Muhaidat, Jie Liang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 2011
In this paper, we investigate the performance of selection cooperation in the presence of imperfect channel estimation. In particular, we consider a cooperative scenario with multiple relays and amplify-and-forward protocol over frequency flat fading channels. In the selection scheme, only the "best" relay which maximizes the effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver end is selected. We present lower and upper bounds on the effective SNR and further we provide closed-form expressions for the bounds on average symbol error rate (ASER), outage probability and average capacity per bandwidth of the received signal in the presence of channel estimation errors. A simulation study is presented to corroborate the analytical results and to demonstrate the performance of relay selection with imperfect channel estimation.