Outage analysis of full duplex decode and forward relaying over Nakagami-m channels

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the outage behavior of a dual hop cooperative system where the relay is equipped with full duplex relaying (FDR) capabilities that means a relay can simultaneously receive and transmit unlike half duplex relaying (HDR), where the relay cannot receive and transmit simultaneously. We consider, in this analysis, that the reception at destination via any channel other than source-relay-destination is an interference. The interference between the receiving and transmitting antennas at the relay is also taken into account. At relay, the signal received from source is first decoded and then forwarded to destination.We derive the closed form expressions for outage probability considering flat, non-identical and independent Nakagami-m fading channels for both FDR and HDR. The comparison of outage performances reveals that FDR stands better than HDR for lower values of signal-to-noise ratio(SNR).