Performance of Two-Hop Relay Assisted Decode-and-Forward Transmission under Mixed Fading Environments

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KAPUCU N., BİLİM M., DEVELİ I., Kabalcı Y.

ELEKTRONIKA IR ELEKTROTECHNIKA, cilt.21, sa.1, ss.60-63, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5755/j01.eee.21.1.9806
  • Dergi Adı: ELEKTRONIKA IR ELEKTROTECHNIKA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.60-63
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study analyses the performance of two-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocol under mixed faded channels by evaluating outage probability (P-out) and average bit-error probability (ABEP). It is assumed that the channel between source and relay is Rayleigh fading, whereas the relay-destination link is subject to Weibull fading. First, a closed-form expression is formulated for P-out and then it is used to obtain ABEP for the considered system model. The ABEP performance of two-hop DF relaying is presented for M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK) signaling with different constellation sizes. Moreover, the proposed analytical expressions are verified by simulations that present the correctness of the derived formulas.