Outage rate and outage duration of decode-and-forward cooperative diversity systems

Nikola Zlatanov, Zoran Hadzi-Velkov, George K. Karagiannidis, Robert Schober

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Abstract

A complete evaluation of the benefits of cooperative diversity schemes should not only include the outage and error rate performance but also the second-order statistics of the achievable information-theoretic capacity. In a non-ergodic fading channel, the system is said to be in outage when the destination cannot decode the fixed-rate transmitted signal with negligible error probability. Because of the Doppler effect, which is induced by the mobility of the wireless nodes, these outage capacity events are correlated. In this paper, we derive the average outage rate (AOR) and the average outage duration (AOD) of two well-known cooperative diversity protocols, decode-and-forward relaying and selection decode-and-forward relaying, operating in slow Rayleigh fading channels. We also analyze the asymptotic behavior of these statistical parameters for high SNRs, where it is shown that the AOR exhibits a similar behavior as the outage probability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011
Subtitle of host publication5 – 9 June, 2011 Kyoto, Japan
EditorsKazuo Hagimoto
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages2324-2329
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781612842332, 9781612842318
ISBN (Print)9781612842325
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Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventIEEE International Conference on Communications 2011: Source of Innovation: Back to the Origin - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 5 Jun 20119 Jun 2011
http://icc2011.ieee-icc.org/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5962386 (IEEE Conference Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Communications 2011
Abbreviated titleICC 2011
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period5/06/119/06/11
OtherICC2011 was held on 5-9 June 2011, with more than 1800 participants, from 48 counties and regions, gathered in the Kyoto International Conference Center to present and discuss the latest topics on next generation Information and Communications Technologies.
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