DocumentCode
3309865
Title
Novel approximation to the average symbol error rate of AF cooperative diversity in Nakagami fading
Author
Beaulieu, Norman C. ; Chen, Yunfei
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
fYear
2011
fDate
28-31 March 2011
Firstpage
1387
Lastpage
1391
Abstract
A new approximation to the average symbol error rate of amplify-and-forward diversity is derived for independent and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels. The new approximation has low computational complexity. Numerical results show that it is almost identical to the exact average symbol error rate in all the cases considered.
Keywords
Nakagami channels; amplify and forward communication; cooperative communication; AF cooperative diversity; amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity; average symbol error rate; computational complexity; distributed Nakagami-m fading channel; Approximation methods; Binary phase shift keying; Diversity methods; Error analysis; Fading; Relays; Signal to noise ratio;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location
Cancun, Quintana Roo
ISSN
1525-3511
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-255-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779332
Filename
5779332
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