Abstract
Applying data buffers at relay nodes significantly improves the outage performance in relay networks, but the performance gain is often at the price of long packet delays. In this paper, a novel relay selection scheme with significantly reduced packet delay is proposed. The outage probability and average packet delay of the proposed scheme under different channel scenarios are analyzed. Simulation results are also given to verify the analysis. The analytical and simulation results show that, compared with non-buffer-aided relay selection schemes, the proposed scheme has not only significant gain in outage performance but also similar average packet delay when the channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is high enough, making it an attractive scheme in practice.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2567-2575 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 30 May 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2017 |
Bibliographical note
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Funding: EPSRC (EP/K014307/2); and Ministry of Defence’s University Defence Research Collaboration in Signal Processing
Keywords
- average delay
- buffer-aided relay
- relay selection