Optimum Antenna Selection with Doubly ZF Processing for AF MIMO Relay Systems

In this letter, we propose a novel antenna selection algorithm for amplify-and-forward (AF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems with Zero-Forcing (ZF) processing applied both at the source node and at the destination node. We obtain the optimum antenna selection criterion by deriving an iterative closed-form expression for capacity maximization.

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