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Performance analysis of relaying systems over Nakagami-m fading with transceiver hardware impairments

LI Xingwang1,2;LI Jingjing1;JIN Jin3;LI Lihua2   

  1. (1. School of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic Univ., Jiaozuo 454000, China;
    2. State Key Lab. of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunication, Beijing 100876, China;
    3. School of Information and Engineering, Zhengzhou Univ., Zhengzhou 450001, China)
  • Received:2017-06-12 Online:2018-06-20 Published:2018-07-18

Abstract:

This paper investigates the effects of transceiver hardware impairments on the performance of relaying systems. In particular, the fixed gain amplify-and-forward(AF) relaying system over Nakagami-m fading channels is considered. Two scenarios are included:  ①the source node is connected to the destination node through the assistance of relaying, whilst the direct link between the source node and the destination node is existent;  ②the source node communicates with the destination node with the aid of AF relaying. In the first scenario, the destination node processes the received information using the selecting combining(SC) algorithm. To analyze the performance of the two scenarios, the analytical closed-form expressions for the outage probability of relaying systems are derived. Simulation results reveal that the outage probability performance can be effectively improved through the relaying, that the hardware impairment parameter has deleterious effects on system performance and that the shape parameter of Gamma is always beneficial to the performance of the system.

Key words: hardware impairments, Nakagami-m fading, selecting combining, outage probability