Exact and Asymptotic Outage Probability Analysis for Decode-and-Forward Networks

Chatzigeorgiou, Ioannis and Guo, Weisi and Wassell, Ian J. and Carrasco, Rolando A. (2011) Exact and Asymptotic Outage Probability Analysis for Decode-and-Forward Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 59 (2). pp. 376-381. ISSN 0090-6778

Abstract

We consider decode-and-forward cooperative networks and we derive analytical expressions as well as tractable asymptotic approximations for the outage probability of a network node. Our analysis sheds more light on the interplay between the channel conditions, the network size and the adopted transmission scheme, and provides a useful tool for the design of cooperative networks.