Outage and SER performance of DF relaying using STBC over dissimilar Rayleigh fading channels

초록

We investigate the symbol error rate (SER) and outage probability of the cooperative transmission with the decode-and-forward relay protocol over dissimilar Rayleigh fading channels. The technique of orthogonal space-time block coding (STBC) is applied at the links of source-relay, source-destination and relay-destination. Closed-form expressions of outage probability and SER are derived, respectively. Simulation results demonstrate those theoretical solutions. ©2009 IEEE.