Performance Evaluation of Best Path Selection Protocol in Multi-hop Relaying Networks under Joint Impact of Co-channel Interference and Hardware Impairments

This paper evaluates outage probability (OP) of a path-selection protocol in multi-path multi-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relaying networks. In the considered protocol, relying on the end-to-end signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), the best path between the source and the destination is selected to enhance the outage performance under joint impact of co-channel interference and hardware imperfection. We derive exact and asymptotic closed-form expressions of the end-to-end OP for the considered protocol over Rayleigh fading channels. Simulation results are then presented to validate theoretical results.

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