“…Due to the symmetry of the proposed system model in Figure 1, without loss of generality, assume that S n and S f are near and far sources from the relays, respectively, where n, f ∈ f1, 2g and n ≠ f . Applying the SIC technique [5,6,24,27,32], firstly, the relays decode the signal x n of the nearby source which has better average channel quality while the signal x f is considered as interference. The received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for detecting x n is given by…”