“…Let , and be the channel coefficients of , and links on subcarrier i , respectively. It's called a subcarrier pair ( i , j ) if subcarrier i in the first phase matches with subcarrier j in the second phase [14]. The destination uses the maximum ratio combining technique to combine signals from the source and the relay and the achievable rate in relay mode for our improved DF protocol is given by For the sake of brevity, , and , where is noise variance.…”