Asymptotic Performance Analysis of Multihop Relayed Transmissions over Nakagami-m Fading Channels
Z. FANG, L. LI, Z. WANG · IEICE Transactions on Communications · 2008
This letter studies the asymptotic bit error rate (BER) performance of multihop communication systems with amplify-and-forward relaying over Nakagami-m fading channels. Since it is difficult to find the exact probability density function (PDF) of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination, we resort to the series expansion of this PDF in the neighborhood of zero. Building upon this result, a closed-form expression for the average BER in the high SNR region is derived. Numeric results show that the derived asymptotic BER expression is accurate at medium and high SNR for both independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) and independent non-identically distributed (i.n.i.d.) channels.