Abstract
Single-relay selection is a simple but efficient scheme for cooperative
diversity among multiple user devices. However, the wrong selection of
the best relay due to aged channel state information (CSI) remarkably
degrades its performance, overwhelming this cooperative gain.
Multi-relay selection is robust against channel aging but multiple
timing offset (MTO) and multiple carrier frequency offset (MCFO) among
spatially-distributed relays hinder its implementation in practical
systems. In this paper, therefore, we propose a deep learning-based
cooperative diversity method coined predictive relay selection (PRS)
that chooses a single relay with the largest predicted CSI, which can
alleviate the effect of channel aging while avoiding MTO and MCFO.
Performance is evaluated analytically and numerically, revealing that
PRS clearly outperforms the existing schemes with a negligible
complexity burden.