Performance analysis of partial transmission cooperative strategy with unreliable relays

The cooperative communications show the great advantage on the relays that can share their resource to improve the decoding of destination. However, relays are considered not reliable due to a low signal strength or high interference, where the relays only transmit a fraction of the message. To solve this problem, in this work, the block processing are implemented in partial transmission (PT), which allows the relays to divide the source information into small blocks and calculate the reliability information of the message. In the destination, a correlated spatial reception scheme is designed to jointly decode several information copies. The motivation is that even if each relay may not decode the message completely correct, the relay can still improve the decoding of destination. This paper formulates the end-to-end outage probability of PT with unreliable relays. Simulation shows the proposed strategy can provide a significant improvement over the conventional strategies with unreliable relays.