Reply to “Comments on Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Opportunistic Relaying in Rician Fading”

First, I would like to thank the associate editor and the author of the Comment for bringing this issue to our attention. While I agree with the mentioned comment, I think the error is rather trivial. The difference is only on a proportional constant for the derived asymptotic expression. Since the main contributions of our paper were the SER expressions in Section III-A and the diversity analysis of the system in Section III-B, the main results are correct. Moreover, in our paper, we used an asymptotic formula based on [Ribeiro et al., 2005, eq. (10)]. The authors in [Ribeiro et al.] also considered the case of M-QAM and M-PSK (see the footnote in p. 1265 of [Ribeiro et al.]), and thus, the expression we used can be a good approximation without multiplying with the constant "c".