Performance of cooperative multi-hop multiuser relaying networks

Abstract

This paper presents both capacity and error performances of cooperative multi-hop multiuser relay system. All multi-hop cooperative relays in the system apply maximal-ratio combining (MRC) scheme, while signal transmission to end users is carried out using opportunistic scheduling algorithm. Numerical results for spectral efficiency and average symbol error probability (ASEP) for considered system are presented and discussed.

Keywords

• Amplify-and-forward relay
• Average symbol error probability
• Multi-hop
• Multiuser
• Rayleigh fading
• System capacity