Recently, the multi-hop cellular networks have been widely studied in order to enhance the cell performances such as the cell capacity. While most of these works merely use the multi-hop methods instead of direct transmission without considering the co-channel inter-cell interference, signal transmission mode and the effects of the number of antennas. With the consideration of above important elements, this paper proposed an improved cellular system with multi-relay amplifies-and-forward (AF) cooperative transmission scheme and the corresponding capacity expression is derived under the corresponding environment. By using the potential space diversity and selecting relays based on maximizing the capacity, the cellular system capacity can be improved effectively. The simulation results show that with the assistance of optimal selected relays, the improved cooperative cellular system capacity with multi-relay AF transmission scheme performs better than single-hop cellular system.
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