• DocumentCode
    2805482
  • 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
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    18-20 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    449
  • Lastpage
    452
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCC.2007.4433466
  • Filename
    4433466