A closed-form expression for the outage probability of decode-and-forward relaying in dissimilar Rayleigh fading channels |
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Authors: | Norman C Beaulieu Jeremiah Hu |
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Affiliation: | iCORE Wireless Commun. Lab., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta.; |
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Abstract: | Decode-and-forward relaying has been shown to be a viable transmission protocol for wireless networks incorporating distributed spatial diversity. Practical systems may employ relay channels that experience statistically different signal fading. The performance of decode-and-forward relaying in channels with dissimilar fading parameters is investigated. In particular, a closed-form expression for the outage probability of a system with an arbitrary number of relays is derived |
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