Performance of TAS/GSC in Multihop Networks over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

In this work, performance analysis of multi-antenna multi-hop networks with transmit antenna selection (TAS) and generalized selection combining (GSC), i.e., with TAS/GSC is investigated for half-duplex (HD) and decode-and-forward (DF) transmission protocols over independent but non-identically distributed (i.n.i.d.) Nakagami-m fading channels. The closed form expression of asymptotic outage probability (OP) is derived and validated via Monte Carlo simulation technique.