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Outage Probability and Average Channel Capacity of Amplify-and-Forward in Conventional Cooperative Communication Networks over Rayleigh Fading Channels

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Performance of conventional cooperative communication networks using amplify-and-forward relay over independent and identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels is investigated in this paper. An expression for probability density function by using moment generating function is obtained. Further closed-form expressions of the outage probability and the average channel capacity are derived. The derived analytical results are compared with Monte Carlo simulations to confirm correctness of the derived expressions.

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    Nagendra Kumar & Vimal Bhatia

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Kumar, N., Bhatia, V. Outage Probability and Average Channel Capacity of Amplify-and-Forward in Conventional Cooperative Communication Networks over Rayleigh Fading Channels. Wireless Pers Commun 88, 943–951 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3221-0

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