Abstract:We consider the problem of combining the signals received from a decode-and-forward relay with those received from the source. As an alternative to the high-complexity maximum-likelihood combining strategy, we propose a bit-wise combining strategy in which the received signals are first converted to log-likelihood values before being combined. We show that, subject to the bit-wise constraint, the optimal combining strategy for binary alphabets -minimizing the probability of error -applies a sigmoidal nonlinear… Show more
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