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

摘要

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.