Cooperative Dual-Hop Wireless Communication Systems With Beamforming Over η - μ Fading Channels

The end-to-end performance of cooperative beamforming in dual-hop relaying systems operating over eta - mu fading channels is investigated. In the analysis, the source-destination node pair is equipped with multiple antennas, whereas the fixed-gain relay has a single antenna. The eta - mu fading channel has Nakagami-m, Rayleigh, one-sided Gaussian, and Nakagami-q (Hoyt) channels as special cases. In this paper, novel statistical expressions for the generalized moments of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), cumulative density function (cdf), probability density function (pdf), and moment-generating function (mgf) are derived and evaluated. Furthermore, the obtained results are used to derive new and simple expressions for the pdf, the outage probability, and the mgf of the end-to-end SNR over Nakagami-m fading channels. In addition, we show that the derived expression for parameter C over the Nakagami-m fading channel is incorrect, and hence, it leads to inaccurate results. Also, we study the impact of the fading parameters eta and mu on the end-to-end system performance. Simulation results show that, in contrast to the fading parameter eta, mu has a significant impact on the system performance.