Performance analysis of multiuser dual-hop satellite relaying systems

Abstract

Abstract In this study, we investigate the outage probability (OP) of a multiuser dual-hop satellite relaying system with decode-and-forward (DF) protocol, where both uplink and downlink experience Shadowed Rician (SR) fading. Specifically,by taking the effects of antenna pattern and path loss into account, we first establish a practical satellite channel model and obtain the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) expression for the considered system, where the uplink employs opportunistic scheduling (OS) scheme while the downlink adopts selection combining (SC) or maximal ratio combining (MRC) approaches. Then, we derive the closed-form OP expressions for the dual-hop satellite relaying with OS/SC and OS/MRC schemes, respectively. Furthermore, the asymptotic OP formulas at high SNR are also developed to gain further insights conveniently. Finally, numerical results confirm the validity of the theoretical formulas and reveal the representative parameters on the system performance.

Keywords

• Dual-hop satellite relaying
• Decode-and-forward
• Outage probability
• Selection combining
• Maximal ratio combining