Average outage duration of multihop communication systems with regenerative relays

Author

Yang, Lin ; Hasna, Mazen O. ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

171

Abstract

Closed-form expressions for the average outage duration of multihop regenerative communication systems over generalized fading channels are presented. These results are general and account for the noise-limited and interference-limited systems. To show the usefulness of the presented expressions, some specific fading scenarios are considered. Finally, some numerical examples of interest comparing direct and relayed transmission, and studying the effect of increasing the number of hops and/or co-channel interferences are plotted and discussed.

Keywords

cochannel interference; fading channels; relays; telecommunication control; closed-form expressions; cochannel interferers; direct transmission; generalized fading channels; interference-limited systems; multihop communication systems; noise-limited systems; regenerative relays; relayed transmission; Ad hoc networks; Bit error rate; Centralized control; Closed-form solution; Delay; Digital relays; Fading; Interference; Spread spectrum communication; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Spring. The 57th IEEE Semiannual

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7757-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2003.1207524

Filename

1207524