Analyzing the performance of error-prone relay networks

In this paper, we provide a semi-analytical method for predicting the upper and lower bound of the end-to-end mutual information for a relay network with practical codes and different combining and decoding mechanisms. Especially in the case of non error-free decoding at the relays, the prediction can be used to significantly improve the performance of the system under consideration.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: ICASSP
• Authors: Sebastian Vorköper, Volker Kühn
• Keywords: End-to-end Mutual Information, ICASSP 2011, Lower Bound, Relays, Signal Processing