Title :
Evaluation of level crossing rates and fade durations for multihop Nakagami fading channels with an amplify-and-forward relay
Author :
Chau, Yawgeng A. ; Huang, Karl Yung-Ta
Author_Institution :
Yuan Ze Univ., Chung-li
fDate :
Nov. 28 2007-Dec. 1 2007
Abstract :
The average level crossing rates (LCR) and average fade durations (AFD) are analyzed for the multihop Nakagami fading channel with an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay. To evaluate the average LCR and AFD in closed-forms, their lower bound and upper bound are derived. Numerical results with different values of fading parameters are presented to illustrate the performance.
Keywords :
fading channels; amplify-and-forward relay; average fade duration; average level crossing rate; multihop Nakagami fading channel; AWGN; Ad hoc networks; Fading; Nakagami distribution; Relays; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Spread spectrum communication; Statistics; Upper bound; Nakagami fading; average fade duration; level crossing rate; multihop;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2007. ISPACS 2007. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1447-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1447-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISPACS.2007.4445817
