Performance Analysis of Two Hop Amplify-and-Forward Systems with Interference at the Relay

Author

Suraweera, Himal A. ; Garg, Hari K. ; Nallanathan, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Volume

14

Issue

8

fYear

2010

fDate

8/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

692

Lastpage

694

Abstract

We analyze the performance of a two hop channel state information (CSI)-assisted amplify-and-forward system, with co-channel interference at the relay. The system´s outage probability and the average bit error rate (BER) in the presence of Rayleigh faded multiple interferers are investigated. We derive an exact expression for the outage probability and an accurate bound for the system´s average BER. Simulation results show the validity of the analysis and point out the effect of interference.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; cochannel interference; error statistics; BER; Rayleigh fading multiple interferers; amplify-and-forward systems; bit error rate; channel state information; cochannel interference; outage probability; relay; AWGN; Additive white noise; Analytical models; Bit error rate; Channel state information; Fading; Interchannel interference; Interference; Performance analysis; Protocols; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless sensor networks; Relay; average bit error rate; co-channel interference; outage probability; two hop networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2010.08.100109

Filename

5545638