Outage analysis of MIMO communication network with hardware impairments based on TAS/MRC
Chao Li, Daoxing Guo, Kefeng Guo · 2017
Recently, significant research interest have been devoted into taking hardware impairments into consideration for the designing of practical communication systems. In this paper, we investigate the outage analysis of dual-hop decode forwarding (DF) the transmit antenna selection / maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) MIMO relay networks with hardware impairments, where TAS/MRC is adopted as an efficient and useful strategy for wireless data transmission while the system is under hardware impairments. Building on this, the novel exact closed-form expression for the outage probability of the considered system is derived, and thus the antenna configuration scheme is determined. In addition, simulation results are provided to validate the correctness of the analytical results.