Adaptive Path Selection Scheme with Combining for Multiple Relaying Cooperative Communications Networks

In future communications, cooperative communications with relay networks will be one of the most effective schemes to enlarge the coverage area and to boost the data rate. In the recent research results, the path selection, power allocation, and relay protocols on relay networks are the most important factors to improve the system performance. However, the channel quality of the direct transmission path and the relaying path has an influential effect on the performance of relay networks. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a best relaying path selection (BRPS) scheme to obtain the path diversity to improve the system capacity and data rate for cooperative networks (CNs). Simulation results show that the more the relay nodes are selected, the lower the bit error rate (BER) is. The proposed BRPS scheme obtains a high concession between both BER and system capacity for CNs.