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We present a dual-hop relayed wireless communication system where the gain of the relay, called combined gain relay (CGR), is produced after combining the channel state information from both hops, depending on the mean hop’s signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The proposed scheme can be efficiently applied in dual-hop transmissions with unbalanced mean SNRs due to the long-term fading effects produced by the movement of the user in the area served by the wireless network. The overall system performance is studied in Rayleigh fading channels. Closed-form expressions are derived for important system performance metrics, such as average end-to-end SNR, average error probability and outage probability. Furthermore, we investigate the CGR’s average power consumption which in certain cases is lower compared to existed relays. Numerical results and simulations show an improvement in the end-to-end system performance.
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Tsiftsis, T.A., Karagiannidis, G.K., Kotsopoulos, S.A. (2006). Wireless Transmissions with Combined Gain Relays over Fading Channels. In: Al Agha, K., Guérin Lassous, I., Pujolle, G. (eds) Challenges in Ad Hoc Networking. Med-Hoc-Net 2005. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 197. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31173-4_1
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