Frequency Diversity Using Random Time Delay in Amplify-And-Forward Relay

Abstract

In a tactical wireless communication environment, it is common for device-to-device communication to occur without a base station, but this can be problematic when the distance between the source and destination is too far. Relays are often used to improve transmission distance and reliability, but amplification-based relaying can result in lower communication performance compared to other methods. This paper proposes a method for obtaining diversity gain through the application of time delay during relaying. The proposed method is compared to a conventional method that uses phase rotation to obtain diversity gain. Simulation results show that the proposed method has slightly lower or similar performance improvement compared to the conventional relay method.