Hardware impairments impact on fixed‐gain AF relaying performance in Nakagami‐ m fading
Nebojša Maletić, Milan Čabarkapa, Natasa J. Neskovic, Djuradj S. Budimir · Electronics Letters · 2015
The effects of joint hardware impairments on the performance of fixed‐gain amplify‐and‐forward (AF) relaying are studied. By considering IQ imbalance at the source and destination and the nonlinear relay the outage probability over Nakagami‐ m fading channels is derived, and the effects of fading and hardware impairments on the system are analysed. The analytical results are verified by Monte Carlo simulations.