On the performance of selection decode-and-forward relay networks over Nakagami-m fading channels

Author

Duong, Trung Q. ; Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao ; Zepernick, Hans-Jürgen

Author_Institution

Radio Commun. Group, Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Ronneby

Volume

13

Issue

3

fYear

2009

fDate

3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

174

Abstract

In this paper, we present the performance of fixed decode-and-forward cooperative networks with relay selection over independent but not identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels, with integer values of the fading severity parameter m. Specifically, closed-form expressions for the symbol error probability and the outage probability are derived using the statistical characteristic of the signal-to-noise ratio. We also perform Monte-Carlo simulations to verify the analytical results.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Nakagami channels; channel coding; decoding; error statistics; Monte-Carlo simulation; Nakagami-m fading channel; decode-and-forward relay cooperative network; outage probability; signal-to-noise ratio; statistical characteristic; symbol error probability; Closed-form solution; Cyclic redundancy check; Decoding; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Performance analysis; Protocols; Relays; Strontium; Decode-and-forward; Nakagami-m fading; outage probability; relay selection; symbol error probability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2009.081858

Filename

4799014