Hybrid hard/soft decode-and-forward relaying protocol with distributed turbo code

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Abstract

This paper proposes a hybrid hard/soft decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocol with distributed turbo code (DTC), based on error detection in cooperative communications. In order to improve the performance in outage case of the channel between source and relay in uplink transmission, the relay decides whether to hard or soft decode the received signal based on the error detection before forwarding to the destination. Our simulation results show that the proposed hybrid hard/soft DF relaying outperforms conventional relaying protocols, in terms of the bit-error rate (BER) performance, in uplink cooperative communications with DTC. This is because the proposed scheme does not amplify the noise and propagate error to the destination by decoding adaptively with the help of error detection code or the use of known threshold in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2009 - International Conference, Proceedings
Pages372-382
Number of pages11
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
EventInternational Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2009 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 29 Jun 20092 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume5593 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2009
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period29/06/092/07/09

Keywords

  • Cooperative diversity
  • Decode-and-forward (DF)
  • Distributed turbo code (DTC)
  • Hybrid relaying protocol
  • Relay network

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