General order antenna selection in dual-hop amplify forward system with multi-antenna relay

Author

Gurung, Arun K. ; Al-Qahtani, Fawaz S. ; Hussain, Zahir M. ; Alnuweiri, Hussein

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2010

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

315

Abstract

In this paper, we apply General Order Statistics (GOS) theorem for the antenna selection in dual-hop amplify-forward fixed-gain relay transmission. The antenna selection is employed at multi-antenna relay terminal for both receiving and transmission. The closed-form expressions of SNR (Signal-to-Noise-Ratio) statistics such as CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function), PDF (Probability Density Function), MGF (Moment Generating Function) and Generalized Moments were derived. The statistics were then used for performance analysis in terms of outage probability and error rate. The expressions are new and specialize to earlier results. The analysis is confirmed with computer simulation. The results facilitate to quantify the performance loss when lower order antenna is selected for the relay links.

Keywords

amplify and forward communication; antennas; statistical distributions; cumulative distribution function; dual-hop amplify forward system; dual-hop amplify-forward fixed-gain relay transmission; general order antenna selection; general order statistics theorem; generalized moments; moment generating function; multiantenna relay terminal; performance analysis; probability density function; Australia; Educational institutions; Nakagami distribution; Amplify and Forward; Cooperative Network; General Order Statistics; Multi-antenna Relay;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ho Chi Minh City

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8875-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATC.2010.5672700

Filename

5672700