Performance analysis of decode-and-forward multi-hop communication: A difference equation approach

Dhaka K, Mallik RK, Schober R (2012)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Communications Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Book Volume: 60

Pages Range: 339-345

Article Number: 6138256

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.12.100705

Abstract

The performance of decode-and-forward multi-hop communication is analyzed in a Rayleigh fading environment. Analytical expressions for the end-to-end symbol error probability are derived in the cases of M-ary phase-shift keying with coherent detection and orthogonal M-ary frequency-shift keying with non-coherent detection using a difference equation approach. When the path loss exponent is greater than one, each node transmits with the same power as that of a direct transmission source, and the relays are equispaced along the line joining the source and the destination, the performance improves with increasing number of hops. Furthermore, for fixed average signal-to-noise ratio per hop, the incremental degradation in performance when adding more hops decreases with each extra hop. © 2012 IEEE.

Authors with CRIS profile

Robert Schober

Involved external institutions

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi IN India (IN) University of British Columbia CA Canada (CA)

How to cite

APA:

Dhaka, K., Mallik, R.K., & Schober, R. (2012). Performance analysis of decode-and-forward multi-hop communication: A difference equation approach. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 60(2), 339-345. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2012.12.100705

MLA:

Dhaka, Kalpana, Ranjan K. Mallik, and Robert Schober. "Performance analysis of decode-and-forward multi-hop communication: A difference equation approach." IEEE Transactions on Communications 60.2 (2012): 339-345.

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