Outage analysis for uncoordinated decode-and-forward networks over nakagami-m channels

In this paper, the outage performance of decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative networks over Nakagami-m fading channels is investigated. In the case of the integer values of the fading severity parameter, the novel closed-form analytical expression for outage probability of networks where destination performs maximum ratio combining (MRC) is derived. Impacts of number of networks nodes, signal-to-noise ratio and fading severity are analyzed.