A Generalized Approach on Outage Performance Analysis of Dual-Hop Decode and Forward Relaying for 5G and Beyond Scenarios

Abstract This paper presents a generalized approach on performance of relay aided communication systems for 5G and beyond scenarios. A dual-hop decode and forwarding scheme is considered in the analysis. The relationship between the outage performance and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of signal to noise ratio (SNR) is exploited to derive a universal expression of outage probability valid for all fading scenarios irrespective of their nature or complexity. Further, an effort is made to parameterise the channel PDF in such a manner that reflects a commonly encountered practical fading scenario faced by current and future wireless communication systems. The analytical results obtained for various cases are validated by Monte-Carlo simulations.