Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Communication Systems with Channel Estimation Errors over Nakagami-m Channels

Author

Wang, Lei ; Cai, Yueming ; Hu, Junquan ; Yang, Weiwei

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Eng., PLA Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

18-20 April 2011

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

314

Abstract

We analyze the impact of channel estimation errors on amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication systems over Nakagami-m fading channels. We derive exact closed-form expression of the average symbol error rate (SER) with channel estimation errors by using the moment-generating function (MGF) based approach. Numerical results confirm that our theoretical analysis is very accurate.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; amplify and forward communication; channel estimation; cooperative communication; numerical analysis; AF cooperative communication; MGF; Nakagami-m channels; amplify-and-forward cooperative communication systems; channel estimation errors; moment-generating function; performance analysis; symbol error rate; theoretical analysis; Channel estimation; Communication systems; Fading; Modulation; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Simulation; average signal-noise-ratio (SNR) gap ratio; average symbol error rate (SER); channel estimation errors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC), 2011 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-312-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMC.2011.89

Filename

5931234