@inproceedings{199dad1717354e57aab0d8e4c090279c,
title = "Outage capacity of bursty amplify-and-forward with incremental relaying",
abstract = "We derive the outage capacity of a bursty version of the amplify-and-forward (BAF) protocol for small signal-to-noise ratios when incremental relaying is used. We show that the ratio between the outage capacities of BAF and the cut-set bound is independent of the relay position and that BAF is outage optimal for certain conditions on the target rate R. This is in contrast to decode-and-forward with incremental relaying, where the relay location strongly determines the performance of the cooperative protocol. We further derive the outage capacity for a network consisting of an arbitrary number of relay nodes. In this case the relays transmit in subsequent partitions of the overall transmission block and the destination accumulates signal-to-noise ratio until it is able to decode.",
keywords = "Bursty amplify-and-forward, Cooperative communications, Incremental relaying, ∈-outage capacity",
author = "T. Renk and H. J{\"a}kel and Jondral, {F. K.} and D. G{\"u}nd{\"u}z and A. Goldsmith",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1109/ISITA.2010.5649511",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424460175",
series = "ISITA/ISSSTA 2010 - 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications",
pages = "1007--1011",
booktitle = "ISITA/ISSSTA 2010 - 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications",
note = "2010 20th International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications, ISITA 2010 and the 2010 20th International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, ISSSTA 2010 ; Conference date: 17-10-2010 Through 20-10-2010",
}