Outage Performance of Variable-Gain AF Relaying Systems in the Combined Presence of HWI and ICE: Analysis and Comparison

Anoop Kumar Mishra, Debmalya Mallick, Sindhu Gowda, Poonam Singh

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of variable-gain (VG) amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying is studied considering both the practical problems of hardware impairments (HWI) and imperfect channel estimation (ICE). End-to-end signal-to-noise plus distortion-and-error ratio (SNDER) and outage probability (OP) expressions for this model are found over Nakagami-m fading channels. Upper bound of the system performance with respect to the SNDER is also found out in the presence of HWI and ICE. High SNR analysis of the derived expressions is performed to gain deeper insights into the performance. The results of fixed-gain (FG) AF and VG-AF are compared with the lower bound of the OP. To verify the theoretical results, Monte Carlo simulation is used. Further, there are plots which show the system behavior with improving channel conditions.

Publication

IEEE VTC 2017 (Fall)

Date

September, 2017

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@INPROCEEDINGS{8288002,
author={A. K. Mishra and D. Mallick and S. C. M. Gowda and P. Singh},
booktitle={2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)},
title={Outage Performance of Variable-Gain AF Relaying Systems in the Combined Presence of HWI and ICE: Analysis and Comparison},
year={2017},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-5},
keywords={amplify and forward communication;channel estimation;Monte Carlo methods;Nakagami channels;radiofrequency interference;relay networks (telecommunication);telecommunication network reliability;ICE;VG-AF;channel conditions;variable-gain AF relaying;HWI;signal-to-noise plus distortion;Nakagami-m fading channels;SNDER;amplify-and-forward;channel estimation;Ice;Hardware;Channel estimation;Relays;Distortion;Power system reliability;Probability},
doi={10.1109/VTCFall.2017.8288002},
ISSN={},
month={Sep.}
}