Diversity achieving full‐duplex DF relaying with joint relay‐antenna selection under Nakagami‐m fading environment

Abstract

SummaryOne of the main imperfections degrading the performance of full‐duplex (FD) relaying systems is the outage floor. In this work, a power scaling method is proposed, which overcomes this effect even when there does not exist a direct channel between source and destination nodes. The system is composed of decode‐and‐forward (DF) FD relays over the Nakagami‐m fading environment. To promote system performance, joint antenna and relay selection methods are employed in the FD relaying systems. Each FD relay is equipped with multiple antennas for receiving and the other for transmitting the information. The transmitting and receiving antennas are chosen based on the instantaneous channel variations, and one relay is selected to improve the signal‐to‐interference and noise ratio (SINR) of the FD relaying system. The performance of the proposed design is investigated. Moreover, the closed‐form equations of the ergodic capacity and outage probability are attained. The analytical results are confirmed by different simulations. Results indicate that the proposed design achieves an additional spatial diversity gain because of using the antenna selection at the relay nodes. Moreover, by power scaling (PS) method, the system performance is effectively improved compared to the conventional FD relaying structures.