Error performance of two-hop decode and forward relaying systems with source and relay transmit antenna selection

Author

Kumbhani, B. ; Kshetrimayum, R.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Guwahati, Guwahati, India

Volume

51

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

3 19 2015

Firstpage

530

Lastpage

532

Abstract

The error performance of two-hop cooperative communication (CC) systems with transmit antenna selection (TAS) at the source and relay over η-μ fading channels is analysed. The probability density function of the received signal-to-noise ratio and the average bit error rate of two-hop CC systems with a source-destination direct link and TAS at both the source and the relay is derived. The exactness of the analytical expressions is validated by the close agreement of the Monte Carlo simulation results and the analytical results.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; error statistics; fading channels; radio links; relay networks (telecommunication); transmitting antennas; η-μ fading channel; Monte Carlo simulation; average bit error rate; probability density function; received signal to noise ratio; relay TAS; source transmit antenna selection; source-destination direct link; two-hop CC system error performance; two-hop decode and forward relaying systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2014.4142

Filename

7062141