Title :
Selection combining of two amplify-forward relay branches with individual links experiencing Nakagami fading
Author :
Paul, Babu Sena ; Bhattacharjee, R.
Author_Institution :
IIT Guwahati, Guwahati
Abstract :
Relay based communication has gained considerable importance in the recent years. In this paper we find out the end- to-end statistics of a two hop non-regenerative relay branch, with each hop being Nakagami-m distributed. A closed form expression for the statistics of the signal envelope at the output of a selection combiner in the destination node is also derived and compared with the simulation results. These statistics are useful in understanding the system performance in terms of bit error rate and outage probability.
Keywords :
Nakagami channels; error statistics; probability; radio links; statistical analysis; Nakagami fading channel; bit error rate; end- to-end statistics; outage probability; radio links; selection combiner; two hop nonregenerative amplify-forward relay branch; Density functional theory; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Power system relaying; Rayleigh channels; Relays; Statistical distributions; Statistics; System performance;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2007. APCC 2007. Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1374-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1374-4
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.2007.4433466
