6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Relay Selection with Noisy Limited Feedback

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158187,
        author={Lei Wang and Guangrong Zhang and Guo Wei},
        title={Relay Selection with Noisy Limited Feedback},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={relay selection noisy feedback power allocation},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158187}
    }
    
  • Lei Wang
    Guangrong Zhang
    Guo Wei
    Year: 2012
    Relay Selection with Noisy Limited Feedback
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158187
Lei Wang1,*, Guangrong Zhang1, Guo Wei1
  • 1: University of Science and Technology of China
*Contact email: leiwwang@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Abstract

Relay selection is a simple technique to achieve spatial diversity in cooperative networks. However, some feedback is generally required from the destination to the relays, raising the issue of the effect of feedback error. This paper focuses on relay selection systems with noisy limited feedback. We propose an analytical framework to analyze such a system and derive the closed-form SNR expression. As resources allocated to feedback and transmitting data, a fundamental tradeoff exists between the allocated resources in both phases. On the basis of the closedform SNR expression, the optimal resource allocation maximizing the achievable rate upper bound is found. Simulation results illustrate the achievable rate for various system configurations.