Two hop amplify-and-forward transmission in mixed rayleigh and rician fading channels

Author

Suraweera, Himal A. ; Louie, Raymond H.Y. ; Li, Yonghui ; Karagiannidis, George K. ; Vucetic, Branka

Author_Institution

Center for Telecommun. & Microelectron., Victoria Univ., Melbourne, VIC

Volume

13

Issue

4

fYear

2009

fDate

4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

229

Abstract

The performance of a two hop amplify-and-forward relay system, where the source-relay and the relay-destination channels experience Rayleigh and Rician fading respectively, is investigated. We derive exact and lower bound expressions for the outage probability and average bit error probability, where the bounds become tight at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). Our results are verified through comparison with Monte Carlo simulations, where we also illustrate the positive impact of the Rician factor on the system performance.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; error statistics; relays; Monte Carlo simulations; Rayleigh fading channels; Rician fading channels; amplify-and-forward relay system; amplify-and-forward transmission; bit error probability; relay-destination channels; source-relay; Australia; Channel state information; Decoding; Error probability; Fading; Rayleigh channels; Relays; Rician channels; Signal to noise ratio; System performance; Relay, amplify-and-forward, Rician fading.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2009.081943

Filename

4815065