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Abstract

In wireless cooperative communication scheme, transmit diversity is achieved by coupling the distributed users. In this paper, a new partner selection algorithm is proposed. The selection scheme utilizes the basic work done by Almawgani on RS coded cooperation for wireless network. Users are classified into weak and strong ones based on the signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) uplink matrix. Users with good uplink channel SNR (strong users) are coupled with those experiencing weak uplink channel conditions (weak users). The proposed algorithm offers an improvement to the outage probability, \(P_{out}\) and power efficiency as compared to the established work. The algorithm shows a significant improvement of \(P_{out}\) at lower values of uplink SNR.

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    Tarik A. Almohamad, M. F. M. Salleh & M. N. Mahmud

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Almohamad, T.A., Salleh, M.F.M. & Mahmud, M.N. Partner Selection Technique for Wireless Cooperative Communication. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 255–267 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1504-2

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