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Buffer-Aided Relaying With Outdated CSI

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Toufiqul Islam *
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Diomidis S. Michalopoulos *
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Robert Schober *
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Vijay K. Bhargava *
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2015.2497342delete
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Adaptive link selection for buffer-aided relaying can provide significant performance gains compared to conventional relaying with fixed transmission schedule, when perfect channel state information (CSI) is available for link selection. However, in practice, link selection may have to be performed based on outdated CSI, because of infrequent feedback of CSI and/or feedback delay. In this paper, we study the effect of outdated CSI on the error rate performance of adaptive link selection for a three node decode-and-forward (DF) relay network with fixed-rate transmission. In particular, we propose two protocols for link selection based on whether the reliability of the CSI estimates is known or not. For both protocols, we provide a unified error-rate analysis in terms of a decision threshold beta, which can be adjusted to maintain buffer stability, and derive asymptotic approximations, which reveal the diversity and coding gains. Since packet transmission delay is unavoidable for opportunistic link selection, we analyze the average delay and throughput considering both finite and infinite buffer size. The average delay and throughput are functions of the decision threshold beta, which can be optimized to minimize the error rate while satisfying average delay and/or throughput constraints. Numerical results manifest that even with outdated CSI, adaptive link selection provides a significant coding gain advantage over conventional DF relaying. Furthermore, we show that a diversity gain of two can be achieved for perfect CSI and the optimum error rate can be approached with small delay and/or high throughput.
Keywords:
Cooperative diversity
link selection
buffer-aided relaying
average delay
outdated CSI
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications cover
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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University of Erlangen Nuremberg
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