Approximate BER expressions of distributed Alamouti's code in dissimilar cooperative networks with blind relays

This paper focuses on error performance analysis of distributed Alamouti's code. Recently, many works have been devoted to the performance analysis of this code. In order to simplify the analysis, however, they either assumed the channels in the cooperative network had the same variances or only considered asymptotic error performance at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) range. In this paper, we study a general dissimilar cooperative network, where the channels have different variances. Two accurate approximate bit error rate (BER) expressions are proposed in order to evaluate the error performance of the distributed Alamouti's code. We also investigate how the values of channel variances affect the accuracies of the proposed approximate BER expressions. Our results demonstrate that the proposed approximate BER expressions are very close to the exact BER over the whole SNR range. Furthermore, we show that the average BER of the distributed Alamouti's code behaves like (ln(E)/E)2 when the transmission power E is sufficiently large.

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