“…Unlike [11], [12], [15], [16], where the fixed-gain amplifyand-forward protocol is used at relay because of the assumption that the instantaneous CSI of S → R channel is absent at relay, and the relay directly amplifies the received signal Y 1 with a scaling factor and forwards the scaled signal to destination, in our scheme we assume that the instantaneous CSI of S → R channel is available at the relay and the adaptive-gain amplify-and-forward protocol can be used at relay [4], [20], but without amplifying Y 1 directly. In particular, the relay amplifies 1, , = 1, 2, .…”