Multihop Wireless Communications Channels

................................................................................................................... III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................................IV TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................. V LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................IX LIST OF ACRONYMS...................................................................................................XI LIST OF SYMBOLS..................................................................................................... XII CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. 1 1.1 MOTIVATION........................................................................................................... 1 1.2 OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 3 1.3 RELEVANT LITERATURE ......................................................................................... 4 1.4 ORGANIZATION....................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER 2 MULTIHOP CHANNELS WITHOUT DIVERSITY ........................ 8 2.1 SYSTEM MODEL...................................................................................................... 8 2.2 DECODED RELAYING MULTIHOP CHANNEL.......................................................... 11 2.2.1 Channel Model .............................................................................................. 11 2.2.2 Probability of Outage.................................................................................... 12 2.2.3 Probability of Error ...................................................................................... 12 2.2.4 Optimal Power Distribution.......................................................................... 12