Performance analysis of two-hop OSTBC transmissions
Guangping Li, Feng Jiu-chao · Journal of Yanshan University · 2011
A two-hop relaying system in which the source are equipped with multiple antennas,while the relay and destination only have a single antenna is considered.OSTBC strategy is employed at the source to achieve space diversity.To make the complexity of the relay lower,fixed gain amplify-to-forward protocol is used.The closed-form expression for outage probability and average SER are derived in Rayleigh fading environment.Finally,Monte Carlo simulations are compared to numerical results to validate the theoretical expressions.