429 research outputs found
Solutions to Integrals Involving the Marcum Q-Function and Applications
Novel analytic solutions are derived for integrals that involve the
generalized Marcum Q-function, exponential functions and arbitrary powers.
Simple closed-form expressions are also derived for the specific cases of the
generic integrals. The offered expressions are both convenient and versatile,
which is particularly useful in applications relating to natural sciences and
engineering, including wireless cpmmunications and signal processing. To this
end, they are employed in the derivation of the channel capacity for fixed rate
and channel inversion in the case of correlated multipath fading and switched
diversity.Comment: 15 Pages, 2 Figure
Performance Analysis of AF Relaying With Selection Combining in Nakagami-m Fading
This paper investigates the performance analysis of a selection combining scheme, which utilizes a variable gain amplify and forward relay over a Nakagami-m fading channel. A selection combiner at a destination node chooses the better link between a relay channel and a direct channel. We derived exact closed-form expressions for moments of signal to noise ratio (SNR), ergodic capacity, and average symbol error probability. Simulation examples confirm that our exact formulas offer a more accurate analysis tool for selection combining than other prevailing approximations without extra complexity. The derived expressions serve as a useful tool for system design due to their validity for any SNR and arbitrary system parameters
Exact performance analysis of dual-hop semi-blind AF relaying over arbitrary nakagami-m fading channels
Relay transmission is promising for future wireless systems due to its significant cooperative diversity gain. The performance of dual-hop semi-blind amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying systems was extensively investigated, for transmissions over Rayleigh fading channels or Nakagami-m fading channels with integer fading parameter. For the general Nakagami-m fading with arbitrary m values, the exact closed-form system performance analysis is more challenging. In this paper, we explicitly derive the moment generation function (MGF), probability density function (PDF) and moments of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over arbitrary Nakagami-m fading channels with semi-blind AF relay. With these results, the system performance evaluation in terms of outage probability, average symbol error probability, ergodic capacity and diversity order, is conducted. The analysis developed in this paper applies to any semi-blind AF relaying systems with fixed relay gain, and two major strategies for computing the relay gain are compared in terms of system performance. All analytical results are corroborated by simulation results and they are shown to be efficient tools to evaluate system performance. © 2011 IEEE.published_or_final_versio
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