Diversity-Multiplexing Gain Trade-off of a MIMO System with Relays

Abstract

We find the diversity-multiplexing gain trade-off of a multiple-antenna (MIMO) system with M transmit antennas, N receive antennas, R relay nodes, and with independent Rayleigh fading, in which the relays apply a distributed space-time code. In this two-stage scheme the trade-off is shown to coincide with that of a MIMO system with R transmit and min{M,N} receive antennas.