Performance analysis of decode and forward cooperative diversity networks with threshold scheme

Abstract

Cooperative diversity technique is used for achieving high data rate and low BER with low transmit power. The paper proposes a new scheme for selection of first relay having SNR above a predefined threshold level in cooperative diversity network, based on geometric distribution. Closed form expression for outage probability is derived for independent and identically distributed channels with decode and forward protocol. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme not only minimizes resource requirements but also improves the overall outage probability over previously proposed schemes for cooperative diversity network.