Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

An Energy-Efficient Relay Selection Strategy Based on Optimal Relay Location for AF Cooperative Transmission

  • Published:
International Journal of Wireless Information Networks Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

In this paper, an energy-efficient optimal relay selection strategy which is jointly optimized with the energy-efficient optimal power allocation scheme for AF cooperative transmission is proposed. The relay selection criterion is the distance from the potential relay to the corresponding optimal relay locations where the minimum transmission power of the source, the relay or their total can be achieved. In order to determine the optimal relay locations, a universal algorithm with low computational complexity and easy implementation is also presented. Simulations are conducted to validate our theoretical analysis. The results show that with the relay selected by the proposed strategy, the cooperative transmission can achieve considerably high energy-efficiency.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. C. Shuguang, A. J. Goldsmith and A. Bahai, Energy-efficiency of MIMO and cooperative MIMO techniques in sensor networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1089–1098, 2004.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. S. K. Jayaweera, Virtual MIMO-based cooperative communication for energy-constrained wireless sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 984–989, 2006.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. A. Nosratinia, T. E. Hunter and A. Hedayat, Cooperative communication in wireless networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 74–80, 2004.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. J. N. Laneman, G. W. Wornell and D. N. C. Tse, An efficient protocol for realizing cooperative diversity in wireless networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE international symposium on information theory, p. 294, 2001.

  5. Y. Zhao, R. Adve and T. J. Lim, Improving amplify-and-forward relay networks: optimal power allocation versus selection, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 3114–3123, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  6. S. Lingyang, Relay selection for two-way relaying with amplify-and-forward protocols, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 1954–1959, 2011.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. V. Mahinthan, C. Lin, J. W. Mark, et al., Partner selection based on optimal power allocation in cooperative–diversity systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 511–520, 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. H. Wan-Jen, Y. W. P. Hong and C. C. J. Kuo, Lifetime maximization for amplify-and-forward cooperative networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1800–1805, 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Z. Zhong, Z. Shengli, C. Jun-Hong, et al., Energy-efficient cooperative communication based on power control and selective single-relay in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 3066–3078, 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. A. S. Ibrahim, A. K. Sadek, S. Weifeng, et al., Cooperative communications with relay-selection: when to cooperate and whom to cooperate with?, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 2814–2827, 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. A. K. Sadek, H. Zhu and K. J. R. Liu, Distributed relay-assignment protocols for coverage expansion in cooperative wireless networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 505–515, 2010.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. G. Kramer, M. Gastpar and P. Gupta, Cooperative strategies and capacity theorems for relay networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 3037–3063, 2005.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  13. Y. Meng, L. Jing and H. Sadjadpour, Amplify-forward and decode-forward: the impact of location and capacity contour. In Proceedings of the IEEE military communications conference, pp. 1609–1615, 2005.

  14. A. K. Sadek, H. Zhu and K. J. R. Liu, A distributed relay-assignment algorithm for cooperative communications in wireless networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on communications, pp. 1592–1597, 2006.

  15. W. Su, A. K. Sadek and K. J. R. Liu, Cooperative communication protocols in wireless networks: performance analysis and optimum power allocation, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 181–217, 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61303210) and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ12F02009).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Zhenzhou Tang & Qian Hu

  2. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China

    Zhenzhou Tang & Hongyu Wang

Authors
  1. Zhenzhou Tang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Hongyu Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Qian Hu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Zhenzhou Tang.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Tang, Z., Wang, H. & Hu, Q. An Energy-Efficient Relay Selection Strategy Based on Optimal Relay Location for AF Cooperative Transmission. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 20, 355–364 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-013-0222-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-013-0222-8

Keywords

Search

Navigation