Performance analysis of amplify-and-forward cooperative communication with adaptive M-QAM modulation

  • Nan Qi
  • , Huisheng Zhang
  • , Lixin Li
  • , Jie Fan
  • , Shaohao Jiang

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Abstract

This paper studies the performance of multiple relays amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication system with adaptive M-QAM modulation in Rayleigh fading channel. The average spectral efficiency of the fixed and adaptive rate MQAM scheme are both researched and analyzed. We come into the conclusion that under certain BER level, the adaptive MQAM scheme achieves significant efficiency gains over the nonadaptive one. Besides, we obtain the spectral efficiency loss for the fixed rate M-QAM scheme resulting from the increase of the number of the relay nodes which are confirmed can in a great extent be compensated for in the adaptive one. In addition, the simulation of probability of outage for the rate-adaptive M-QAM modulation system exhibits that the adaptive scheme can acquire high successful transmission rate as well as guarantee the bit error rate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2012
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 8th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2012 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 21 Sep 201223 Sep 2012

Publication series

Name2012 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2012

Conference

Conference2012 8th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period21/09/1223/09/12

Keywords

  • Adaptive M-QAM modulation
  • Amplify-and-forward cooperative communication system
  • Average spectral efficiency
  • Probability of outage

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