Opportunistic Decode-and-Forward Cooperation in Mixed Rayleigh and Rician Fading Channels
Changqing Yang, Wenbo Wang, Shuang Zhao, Mugen Peng · ETRI Journal · 2011
We consider a two-hop multiple-relay network implemented with opportunistic decode-and-forward cooperative strategy, where the first hop and second hop links experience different fading (Rayleigh and Rician). We derive the exact expressions of end-to-end outage probability and analyze the approximate results in high signal-to-noise ratio region. The analysis shows that the same diversity order can be achieved even in different mixed fading environments. Simulation results are provided to verify our analysis.