Performance of two-hop regenerative relay network under correlated nakagami-m fading at multi-antenna relay

Author

Katiyar, Himanshu ; Bhattacharjee, R.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

13

Issue

11

fYear

2009

fDate

11/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

820

Lastpage

822

Abstract

Performance of cooperative relaying employing infrastructure based fixed relays having multiple antennas has been investigated. Here, both relay and destination perform maximal ratio combining combining of the signals. Closed form expressions for outage probability and bit error rate have been derived for Nakagami-m fading channels, with integer values of m. The effect of fading correlation among relay antennas and relay positioning on the system performance have also been studied.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; antenna arrays; correlation methods; diversity reception; error statistics; probability; Nakagami-m fading channel; bit error rate; closed form expression; maximal ratio combining; multiantenna relay; outage probability; two-hop cooperative regenerative relay network; Antenna arrays; Bit error rate; Broadcasting; Decoding; Digital relays; Diversity reception; Fading; Receiving antennas; System performance; Transmitting antennas; Outage probability, bit error rate, multi-antenna relay, MRC combining, correlated fading, regenerative mode, Nakagami-m fading channels.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2009.091298

Filename

5337054