Novel approximation to the average symbol error rate of AF cooperative diversity in Nakagami fading
Norman C. Beaulieu, Yunfei Chen · 2011
A new approximation to the average symbol error rate of amplify-and-forward diversity is derived for independent and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels. The new approximation has low computational complexity. Numerical results show that it is almost identical to the exact average symbol error rate in all the cases considered.