Open AccessHardware impairments impact on fixed‐gain AF relaying performance in Nakagami‐ m fading
Author(s) -
Maletic N.,
Cabarkapa M.,
Neskovic N.,
Budimir D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2015.3378
Subject(s) - fading , nakagami distribution , relay , monte carlo method , outage probability , joint (building) , computer science , electronic engineering , nonlinear system , telecommunications , mathematics , statistics , engineering , physics , channel (broadcasting) , power (physics) , architectural engineering , quantum mechanics
The effects of joint hardware impairments on the performance of fixed‐gain amplify‐and‐forward (AF) relaying are studied. By considering IQ imbalance at the source and destination and the nonlinear relay the outage probability over Nakagami‐ m fading channels is derived, and the effects of fading and hardware impairments on the system are analysed. The analytical results are verified by Monte Carlo simulations.