Outage, throughput and energy efficiency analysis of some half and full duplex cooperative relaying schemes

In this paper, we compare cooperative full-duplex (FD) and incremental cooperative half-duplex (HD) relaying, in terms of outage probability, throughput and energy efficiency. We consider a practical model for the FD relay, where selfinterference between transmitted and received signals is taken into account. The FD transmission is based on the well known block Markov encoding scheme. For the HD transmission, incremental space-time cooperation and selection combining based on the cooperative decode-and-forward protocol are considered. Our results show that incremental cooperative HD relaying can outperform cooperative FD relaying, specially if the self-interference is non negligible, achieving a better trade-off between throughput and energy consumption. Copyright c © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Correspondence CPGEI, Federal University of Technology Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, PR, 80230-901, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]