Performance Analysis of Linear Cooperative Multi-Hop Networks Subject to Composite Shadowing-Fading

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 12; no. 11; pp. 5850 - 5858
• Main Authors: Bacha, Mudasar, Hassan, Syed Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.11.2013; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Approximation methods; Channels; composite shadowing-fading; Cooperative communication; Exact sciences and technology; Fading; Markov analysis; Markov chain; Markov processes; moment generating function; Network topology; Operation, maintenance, reliability; opportunistic large array; Shadow mapping; Signal to noise ratio; Stochastic models; Suzuki distribution; Systems, networks and services of telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Topology; Performance evaluation; Markov process; Cooperative communication; Hermite interpolation; Wireless telecommunication; Lognormal distribution; Composite material; Markov chain; Transition matrix; composite shadowing-fading; Transition probability; Standard deviation; Rayleigh distribution; Stationary process; Random variable; Fading; Generating function; moment generating function; Cooperative systems; Multihop network; Discrete time; Suzuki distribution; Telecommunication channels; opportunistic large array; Shadowing; Service quality; Signal to noise ratio

We consider a cooperative multi-hop line network, where a group of nodes cooperatively transmits the same message to another group of nodes, and model the transmission from one group to another as a discrete-time quasi-stationary Markov process. We derive the transition probability matrix of the Mar...