A successive opportunistic relaying protocol with inter-relay interference mitigation

In this work, we present a successive opportunistic relaying protocol with an inter-relay interference (IRI) mitigation scheme, in a quasi-static environment with Rayleigh fading. In order to recover the half duplex loss of the transmission, we adopt a successive relaying (SR) strategy, coupled with reactive relay selection considering the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and the Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) of each hop, after every source transmission. The main degrading factor in this scheme is the IRI introduced by the best relay, which is selected to forward the previous frame, while the rest of the relays are receiving the current source frame. Trying to cancel the effect of IRI, we employ interference cancelation (IC) to subtract the interference signal depending on the capacity of the interference channel.