Performance analysis of cooperative networks in shadowed fading with co-channel interference

Author

Bithas, Petros S. ; Rontogiannis, Athanasios A.

Author_Institution

IAASARS, Nat. Obs. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2014

Firstpage

381

Lastpage

385

Abstract

In this paper the performance of a cooperative communication system operating over a composite fading environment and is also subject to interference is investigated. More specifically, assuming a decode-and-forward (multi-relay) cooperative network with relay selection, exact and approximated expressions are derived for the cumulative distribution function of the output signal to interference plus noise ratio. Based on these expressions, the outage and the average bit error probabilities of the system under consideration are studied and used to obtain various numerical performance evaluation results, depicting in all cases the usefulness of the proposed approach.

Keywords

cochannel interference; cooperative communication; decode and forward communication; error statistics; fading channels; relay networks (telecommunication); average bit error probabilities; co-channel interference; composite fading environment; cooperative communication system; cumulative distribution function; decode-and-forward cooperative network; relay selection; shadowed fading; Diversity reception; Fading; Interference; Relays; Shadow mapping; Signal to noise ratio; Decode-and-forward; K fading/shadowing; relay selection; signal-to-interference and noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), 2014 IEEE 25th Annual International Symposium on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2014.7136194

Filename

7136194