Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Relay Selection Cooperative Communication in Cascaded Fading Channels

Abstract

Cooperative communication enables users to transmit information in a cooperative way, which is one of the key technologies used in wireless communication systems to improve spectral efficiency. A cascade Nakagami-m fading function is proposed to describe the fading characteristics of complex wireless channels, and a communication model of decoding-and-forward opportunistic relay selection (DF-ORS) cooperative communication under total power constraints is established. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that DF-ORS cooperative communication can effectively reduce outage probability and improve spectrum efficiency under total power constraints and complex cascade Nakagami-m fading channels. The transmission power allocation of source node and relay node has an important impact on communication performance. Equal power allocation scheme cannot guarantee the optimal system performance, and the obtained conclusions have more general applicability.