creators_name: Peppas, Kostas P. creators_name: Mansour, Akil creators_name: Tombras, George S. type: journale datestamp: 2011-08-30 04:24:23 lastmod: 2011-08-30 04:24:23 metadata_visibility: show title: Dual-hop transmissions with fixed-gain relays over Generalized-Gamma fading channels ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets full_text_status: public keywords: Journal of Telecommunications note: K. P. Peppas, A. Mansour and G. S. Tombras, "Dual-hop transmissions with fixed-gain relays over Generalized-Gamma fading channels", Journal of Telecommunications, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp87-93, February 2010 abstract: In this paper, a study on the end-to-end performance of dual-hop wireless communication systems equipped with fixed-gain relays and operating over Generalized-Gamma (GG) fading channels is presented. A novel closed form expression for the moments of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived. The average bit error probability for coherent and non-coherent modulation schemes as well as the end-to-end outage probability of the considered system are also studied. Extensive numerically evaluated and computer simulations results are presented that verify the accuracy of the proposed mathematical analysis. date: 2010-02 date_type: published publication: Journal of Telecommunications, ISSN 2042-8839 volume: 1 number: 1 publisher: Journal of Telecommunications refereed: TRUE citation: Peppas, Kostas P. and Mansour, Akil and Tombras, George S. (2010) Dual-hop transmissions with fixed-gain relays over Generalized-Gamma fading channels. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/6801/1/V1-I1-P87-93.pdf