No.

Beamforming at the AF relay nodes

Capacity gain for 3 antennas at each node and different number of relay nodes

Number of relay nodes

1

2

3

bit/s/Hz

bit/s/Hz

bit/s/Hz

1

Proposed technique

16.15

20.67

23.55

2

MF-PA-SLNR

14.26

18.44

21.17

3

MF-RZF

13.26

17.31

19.80