BER Analysis of Multi-Hop Decode-and-Forward Relaying with Generalized Selection Combining
Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Hyung-Yun Kong · IEICE Transactions on Communications · 2010
Generalized selection combining (GSC) was recently proposed as a low-complexity diversity combining technique for diversity-rich environments. This letter proposes a multi-hop Decode-and-Forward Relaying (MDFR) scheme in conjunction with GSC and describes its performance in terms of average bit error probability. We have shown that the proposed protocol offers a remarkable diversity advantage over direct transmission as well as the conventional decode-and-forward relaying (CDFR) scheme. Simulation results are also given to verify the analytical results.