A novel relay selection with power allocation-based mechanism in interference environment

Abstract

In this paper, the behavior of relay networks in interference environments is investigated. It has been shown that the effect of interference during Amplify-and-Forward process at relays bounds the diversity slope of the system at a well-defined static point. Moreover, the conventional relay selection criteria are also shown to be inefficient. To help our systems to improve its performance, the power allocation issue is taken into account with relay selection. However, solving a jointly optimization prob lem, optimizing transmitted power and maximizing the received SNR corresponding with the potential relay simultaneously, are difficult. In other words, it requires high complexity manipulation procedures. By proposing a power allocation and a relay selection separately, then combining these two methods, we form a new relay selection with power allocation-based mechanism that is less complex and has comparable performance with the optimal process.