Performance of N*Nakagami cascaded fading channels in dual selection combining diversity

Diversity in cascaded Nakagami channels is studied. Average error probabilities and outage probabilities are calculated for dual selection combining algorithm in 2, 3, and 4-fold cascaded channels. Results demonstrate the existence of deterioration in the performance of wireless systems as the number of cascades increases from 1 to 4, and, the improvement gained through the implementation of selection combining diversity.