Performance Analysis of Moving Multi-antenna Relay Cooperation with Hybrid Relaying Scheme in Cooperative Wireless Networks

The multi-antenna relay cooperation-hybrid (MARC-H) scheme. This paper studied the impact of MARC-H on the performance of moving (line of sight (LOS) between source and destination) multi-antenna relay. The MARC-H opts adaptively either Decode-and-Forward (DF) or Amplify-and-Forward (AF) scheme based on the relay placement. In particular, this paper analyzed the outage performance of MARC-H scheme and compared with multi-antenna relay cooperation-AF (MARC-AF) and multi-antenna relay cooperation-DF (MARC-DF) schemes. Maximal ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining (SC) are performed at destination in order to compare outage probability. The effect of number of antennas installed on the relay node and its placement on the MARC-H have also been studied.