Bhuvan Modi, O. Olabiyi and A.Annamalai
Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Prairie View A & M University, TX 77446 United States of America
ABSTRACT
This paper analyzes the performance of cooperative amplify-and-forward (CAF) relay networks that
employ adaptive M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM)/M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK)
digital modulation techniques in Nakagami-m fading channel. In particular, we present and compared the
analysis of CAF relay networks with different cooperative diversity and opportunistic routing strategies
such as regular Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC), Selection Diversity Combining (SDC), Opportunistic
Relay Selection with Maximal Ratio Combining (ORS-MRC) and Opportunistic Relay Selection with
Selection Diversity Combining (ORS-SDC). We advocate a simple yet unified numerical approach based on
the marginal moment generating function (MGF) of the total received SNR to compute the average symbol
error rate (ASER), mean achievable spectral efficiency, and outage probability performance metrics.
KEYWORDS
Cooperative communications, adaptive M-QAM/MPSK modulation, Opportunistic relay selection
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