Asymptotically-Exact Performance Bounds of AF Multi-Hop Relaying over Nakagami Fading

A new class of upper bounds on the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of channel-assisted amplify-and-forward (AF) multi-hop (N ≥ 2) relay networks is presented. It is the half-harmonic mean of the minimum of the first P ≥ 0 hop SNRs and the minimum of the remaining N-P hop SNRs. The parameter P varies between 0 to N and may be chosen to provide the tightest bound. The closed-form cumulative distribution function and moment generating function are derived for independent and non-identically distributed Rayleigh fading and for independent and identically distributed Nakagami-m fading, where m is an integer. The resulting outage probability and the average symbol error rate bounds are asymptotically-exact. The asymptotic-exactness holds for any 0 ≤ P ≤ N. As applications, two cases of multi-hop multi-branch relay networks (i) the best branch selection and (ii) maximal ratio combining reception are treated. Numerical results are provided to verify the comparative performance against the existing bounds.

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