Novel approach for approximating the performance of multi-hop multi-branch relaying over Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Forghani, Amir H. ; Ikki, Salama S. ; Aïssa, Sonia

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci. (INRS), Univ. of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A closed-form approximate expression for the average bit error probability (ABEP) of multi-hop multi-branch cooperative networks is derived. The cooperative amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying scheme includes M separate branches between the source node and the destination node, and each branch comprises a certain number of relays. Furthermore, we consider independent and non-identical Rayleigh fading links between successive nodes in each branch. Numerical results are also provided and compared with Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Rayleigh channels; amplify and forward communication; cooperative communication; error statistics; probability; ABEP; AF relaying; Monte Carlo simulations; Rayleigh fading channels; Rayleigh fading links; average bit error probability; cooperative amplify-and- forward relaying; multihop multibranch cooperative networks; multihop multibranch relaying performance; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Spread spectrum communication; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Days (WD), 2011 IFIP

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

2156-9711

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2027-7

Electronic_ISBN

2156-9711

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WD.2011.6098202

Filename

6098202