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Power Allocation Method for Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Communication Systems with Multiple Relays

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  • Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China

Received date: 2011-12-14

  Online published: 2012-02-29

Abstract

Power allocation has long been one of the most crucial technologies in wireless communications. Research on effective utilization of power has great significance for wireless systems. This paper proposes a novel power allocation scheme for the amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication systems to minimize the total transmit power. The simulated annealing (SA) algorithm is introduced here to solve the optimization problem. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme outperforms that of equal power allocation scheme in terms of bit error rate and system capacity. 

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WU Zhuo,YANG Hong-bing,ZHENG Guo-xin . Power Allocation Method for Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Communication Systems with Multiple Relays[J]. Journal of Shanghai University, 2012 , 18(1) : 20 -25 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-2861.2012.01.004

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