A new formula for the average bit error probability of dual-hop amplify-and-forward relaying systems over generalized shadowed fading channels

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-88

  Peppas, Kostas P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

amplify and forward; Average bit error probability; bivariate H fox function; extended generalized mathcal K fading; Mellin Barnes integrals

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; AVERAGE BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; BIVARIATE; EXTENDED GENERALIZED-\MATHCAL{K} FADING; MELLIN-BARNES INTEGRALS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 84861843630     PISSN: 21622337     EISSN: 21622345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/WCL.2012.012712.110092     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. G. K. Karagiannidis, T. Tsiftsis, and R. Mallik, Bounds for multihop relayed communications in Nakagami-m fading, IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 54, no. 15, pp. 18-22, Jan. 2006.
2. G. P. Efthymoglou, N. Bissias, and V. A. Aalo, On the error analysis of dual-hop amplify-and-forward relaying in generalized-K fading channels, J. Electrical and Computer Engineering, June 2010, doi:10.1155/2010/584594.
3. M. D. Renzo, F. Graziosi, and F. Santucci, A unified framework for performance analysis of CSI-assisted cooperative communications over fading channels, IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2551-2557, Sep. 2009.
4. G. Farhadi and N. Beaulieu, A general framework for symbol error probability analysis of wireless systems and its application in amplify and-forward multihop relaying, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 1505-1511, Mar. 2010.
5. F. Yilmaz, O. Kucur, and M.-S. Alouini, A unified framework for the statistical characterization of the SNR of amplify-and-forward multihop channels, in Proc. 2010 International Conference on Telecommunications.
6. F. Yilmaz, O. Kucur, and M.-S. Alouini, A novel framework on exact average symbol error probabilities of multihop transmission over amplify-and-forward relay fading channels, in 2010 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, pp. 546-550.
7. C. Tellambura, M. Soysa, and D. Senaratne, Performance analysis of wireless systems from the MGF of the reciprocal of the signal-to-noise ratio, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 55-57, Jan. 2011.
8. N. B. Mehta, J. Wu, A. F. Molisch, and J. Zhang, Approximating a sum of random variables with a lognormal, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 2690-2699, July 2007.
9. M. D. Renzo, F. Graziosi, and F. Santucci, A comprehensive framework for performance analysis of cooperative multi-hop wireless systems over log-normal fading channels, IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 531-544, Feb. 2010.
10. F. Yilmaz and M.-S. Alouini, A new simple model for composite fading channels: second order statistics and channel capacity, in Proc. 2010 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, pp. 676-680.
11. P. M. Shankar, Error rates in generalized shadowed fading channels, Wireless Personal Commun., vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 233-238, Feb. 2004.
12. E. Stacy, A generalization of the gamma distribution, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, vol. 3, no. 33, pp. 1187-1192, Sep. 1962.
13. I. S. Ansari, S. Al-Ahmadi, F. Yilmaz, M.-S. Alouini, and H.Yanikomeroglu, A new formula for the BER of binary modulations with dual-branch selection over gereralized-K composite fading channels, IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 2654-2658, Oct. 2011.
14. M. Xia, C. Xing, Y. Chung, and S. Aissa, Exact performance analysis of dual-hop semi-blind AF relaying over arbitrary Nakagami-m fading channels, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 3449-3459, Oct. 2011.
15. M. D. Renzo, F. Graziosi, and F. Santucci, A comprehensive framework for performance analysis of dual-hop cooperative wireless systems with fixed-gain relays over generalized fading channels, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8, no. 19, pp. 5060-5074, Oct. 2009.
16. I. Gradshteyn and I. M. Ryzhik, Tables of Integrals, Series, and Products, 6th edition. Academic Press, 2000.
17. A. Mathai, R. K. Saxena, and H. J. Haubold, The H-Function: Theory and Applications. Springer, 2010.
18. M. O. Hasna and M. S. Alouini, Outage probability of multihop transmission over Nakagami fading channels, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 216-218, May 2003.
19. A. P. Prudnikov, Y. A. Brychkov, and O. I. Marichev, Integrals and Series, Vol. 3: More Special Functions, 1st edition. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986.
20. The Matlab Central. Available: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/ fileexchange/3572-gamma