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

Kapucu, NuriBilim, MehmetDeveli, IbrahimKabalci, Yasin2019-08-012019-08-0120151392-1215https://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.21.1.9806https://hdl.handle.net/11480/4063This 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.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessDecode-and-forwardtwo-hop relayingWeibull distributionPerformance of Two-Hop Relay Assisted Decode-and-Forward Transmission under Mixed Fading EnvironmentsArticle211606310.5755/j01.eee.21.1.98062-s2.0-84922644402Q3WOS:000349838500011Q4