  We derive optimal SNR-based transmit antenna selection rules at the source
and relay for the nonregenerative half duplex MIMO relay channel. While antenna
selection is a suboptimal form of beamforming, it has the advantage that the
optimization is tractable and can be implemented with only a few bits of
feedback from the destination to the source and relay. We compare the bit error
rate of optimal antenna selection at both the source and relay to other
proposed beamforming techniques and propose methods for performing the
necessary limited feedback.
