In this letter, we present a closed-form approximation of the outage probability for the multi-hop amplify-andforward (AF) relaying systems with fixed gain in Rayleigh fading channel. The approximation is derived from the outage event for each hop. The simulation results show the tightness of the proposed approximation in low and high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region.

In this paper, we present an analysis of the outage probability for fixed-gain amplify-and-forward (AF) multihop relay links operating in the high SNR regime. Our analysis exploits properties of Mellin transforms to derive an asymptotic approximation that is accurate even when the per-hop channel gains adhere to completely different fading models. The main result contained in the paper is a gen...

In dual-hop multi-relaying wireless systems, the non-closed form expression in log-normal probability distributions and high varying standard deviations makes it impossible to effectively execute performance analyses of outage probability and bit-error-rate (BER) performance levels; thus, an analysis framework was proposed for use in a composite (Rayleigh plus log-normal) fading channel. Develo...

OF THE DISSERTATION Limited Feedback Design for Multiuser Networks By Xiaoyi Liu Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Irvine, 2017 Professor Hamid Jafarkhani, Chair In this dissertation, the potential of limited feedback in multiuser/multinode networks is explored, and our goal is to design efficient and practical quantizers to mitigate the perfo...

In this paper, an outage limited MIMO channel is considered. We build on Zheng and Tse’s elegant formulation of the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff to develop a better understanding of the asymptotic relationship between the probability of error, transmission rate, and signal-to-noise ratio. In particular, we identify the limitation imposed by the multiplexing gain notion and develop a new form...

In this paper, we consider a cognitive radio network that consists of one cognitive base station (CBS) and multiple cognitive users (CUs) in the presence of an eavesdropper. In the cognitive radio network, CBS first detects whether there is spectrum hole through spectrum sensing and then communicates with CUs over the detected spectrum hole. Due to the broadcast nature of wireless transmission,...

Outage analysis is one of the primary objectives in the design and operation of the current generations of cellular mobile communications systems, in order to increase spectrum efficiency and meet the quality of service and the grade of service demands. A general and unified semi-analytical approach is presented for the direct evaluation of the outage probability in the presence of L mutually i...