1) The document proposes and analyzes differential dual-hop relaying over time-varying Rayleigh fading channels. It considers both two-symbol detection and multiple-symbol detection.
2) For two-symbol detection, it develops a channel time-series model and performs a bit-error rate analysis, showing there is an error floor in fast fading channels.
3) Multiple-symbol detection is then proposed to overcome this error floor by jointly detecting multiple received symbols using sphere decoding, improving performance in fast fading scenarios.