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Energy efficiency of base station cooperation using amplify-and-forward relay protocol

  • Yahya Saeed
  • , Muhammad Imran
  • , Omer Waqar
  • University of Sulaimani
  • University of Surrey

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Abstract

Since 80% of energy is consumed in radio access side, advanced deployment strategies such as amplify-and-forward (AF)relay networks were presented to provide special diversity for future mobile communication systems. In this paper, BS cooperation scheme is proposed using AF relay protocol for relatively smaller cells than conventional networks. Here, performance of the proposed scheme outperforms both direct transmission and relay cooperative protocols in such a way that, it consumes lower transmission energy than AF for both source and relay nodes. Furthermore, impacts of distance dependent path loss and log-normal shadowing on the performance of proposed scheme are examined and compared to the available schemes such as AF relay networks. Finally, advantages of using fixed and optimal power allocation for base station cooperation schemes are examined and compared to AF relay cooperative networks. It was observed that BS cooperation scheme results in almost 67.64% reduction in μjoules/bit, for both uplink and downlink modes at the worst case. Hence, less power will be consumed to combat fast variations in channel conditions such as log-normal shadowing effect.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 IEEE 16th International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages37-41
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467370042
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Feb 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2015 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 18 Oct 201520 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Communication Technology Proceedings, ICCT
Volume2016-February

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period18/10/1520/10/15

Keywords

  • Amplify-and-forward (AF)
  • Base Station cooperation
  • Cooperative diversity
  • Inter Site Distance (ISD)

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