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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Cancun, Quintana Roo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-255-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779332
