| Abstract: | Outage analysis plays a vital role in wireless systems to determine reliable transmission and effective communication. Incremental hybrid decode‐amplify‐forward (IHDAF) relay offers a way of meeting the challenges of capacity and coverage improvement with great potential in cooperative communication networks. Therefore, opportunistic incremental hybrid relaying must be integrated with coding schemes to achieve full diversity. In this paper, the outage behavior of polar coded and distributed coded cooperative relaying schemes is analyzed. Simulation results show that opportunistic incremental HDAF using polar code offers an outage capacity of 17 b/s/Hz for 4 × 4 multiantenna and 45 b/s/Hz in 8 × 8 multiantenna systems with an outage of 10?8 and 10?13, respectively. Moreover, the polar coded opportunistic IHDAF system in 8 × 8 MIMO achieves 2 and 6 dB higher gains compared with amplify‐and‐forward (AF) and decode‐and‐forward (DF) relaying schemes. The closed‐form expression for outage probability has been derived through Marcum‐Q approximations and processed through Monte Carlo simulations. |
