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This paper investigates the outage performance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system that exploits buffer-aided max-link relay selection. Both asymmetric and symmetric source-to-relay and relay-to-destination channel configurations are considered. We derive the closed-form expressions for the outage probability and analyze the average packet delays. We prove that the diversity order is between N and 2N (where N is the relay number), corresponding to a relay buffer size between 1 and ∞, respectively. We also analytically show the coding gain. Numerical results are given to verify the theoretical analyses.
Author(s): Tian Z, Chen Z, Gong Y, Chambers JA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Year: 2015
Volume: 64
Issue: 2
Pages: 553-565
Print publication date: 09/02/2015
Online publication date: 16/05/2014
Acceptance date: 08/05/2014
Date deposited: 08/02/2017
ISSN (print): 0018-9545
ISSN (electronic): 1939-9359
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2014.2324761
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2324761
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