201. Ergodic Capacity and SNR Analysis for Dual Hop Amplify and Forward Cooperative Communication Systems Over $\alpha$$-$$\eta$$-$$\mu$ Channels.
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Magableh, Amer M., Aldalgamouni, Taimour, Mater, Sharaf, and Badarneh, Osamah S.
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WIRELESS cooperative communication , *ERGODIC transformations , *RADIO transmitter fading , *SIGNAL-to-noise ratio , *TELECOMMUNICATION systems , *WIRELESS channels , *TELECOMMUNICATION channels - Abstract
Dual-hop communication systems are known to extend coverage and reduce transmit power in scenarios where one-hop communication is not possible. The $\alpha -\eta -\mu$ fading distribution is a general fading distribution that can be reduced to other fading distributions like Rayleigh, Nakagami- $m$ , $\alpha$ - $\mu$ , and $\eta$ - $\mu$. In this paper, we study the statistics of the end-to-end signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a dual-hop amplify and forward system with semi-blind relay over independent but not necessarily identical $\alpha -\eta -\mu$ fading channels. Specifically, we derive an expression for the $n$ th moment of the end-to-end SNR. The derived expression is then utilized to find the average value, the amount of fading, and the ergodic capacity of the end-to-end SNR. Numerical results are provided and compared to simulations to validate the derived expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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