Outage Performance of Opportunistic Amplify-and-Forward Relaying over Asymmetric Fading Environments

Sudhan Majhi, Youssef Nasser, Jean Francois Helard

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DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2010.35056                

Abstract

This letter analyzes the outage probability of opportunistic amplify-and-forward relaying over asymmetric and independent but non-identically distributed (i.n.d) fading environments. The work investigates the scenarios where cooperative nodes are located at different geographical locations. As a result, the different signals are affected by different i.n.d fading channels, one may undergo Rician fading distribution and others may undergo Rayleigh fading distribution. In this letter, a lower bound of the outage probability for various asymmetric fading environments is derived at high SNR by applying the initial value theorem. The analytical model is validated through Monte-Carlo simulation results.

Keywords

Outage Probability, Opportunistic Relaying, Amplify-and-Forward Relaying, Rayleigh and Rician Fading Channels, Asymmetric Fading Channels, Independent and Non-Identically Distributed

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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