On the Throughput and Outage Probability of Multi-Relay Networks With Imperfect Power Amplifiers
Journal article, 2015

This paper studies the energy-limited performance of multi-relay networks. Taking the properties of the power amplifiers (PAs) into account, we derive closed-form expressions for the optimal power allocation, the outage probability and the throughput in the cases with a sum consumed energy constraint. Moreover, we analyze the diversity and the multiplexing gains of the PA-aware systems. Finally, we investigate the performance of large-scale multi-relay networks and develop efficient multi-relay systems with low cooperation overhead. The numerical and the analytical results show that the inefficiency of the PAs affects the outage probability and the throughput of the multi-relay systems substantially.

multi-relay networks

dense networks

cooperative and non-cooperative

Green Communication

Author

Behrooz Makki

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Thomas Eriksson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

Sharif University of Technology

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

15361276 (ISSN) 15582248 (eISSN)

Vol. 14 9 4994-5008 7104158

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1109/twc.2015.2431257

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Created

10/8/2017