Efficient Simulation of the Outage Probability of Multihop Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we present an efficient importance sampling estimator for the evaluation of the outage probability of multihop systems with amplify-and-forward channel state-information-assisted. The proposed estimator is endowed with the bounded relative error property. Simulation results show a significant reduction in terms of number of simulation runs compared to naive Monte Carlo.

Keywords

• Importance sampling
• multihop systems
• amplify-and-forward
• naive Monte Carlo.