Does Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Relay Improve OFDM/OFDMA Ergodic Capacity？

摘要

The ergodic information rate for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing/ Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access with amplify-and-forward(AF)relaying systems in the presence of frequency offsets is evaluated.Unlike previous work,per-subcarrier adaptive power allocation is performed on each relay to optimize the system ergodic information rate.For a given frequency offset and total number of relays M,the AF ergodic information rate is proven to be a monotonically increasing function of a(the ratio of the power allocated to the source node and the total transmit power),implying that the maximum ergodic information rate can be obtained at α=1(i.e.,there is no cooperative relay).Furthermore,the proof of "cooperative relays cannot improve the AF ergodic information rate in a quasi-static wireless channel" is also provided in this letter.