Exact performance analysis of multihop relaying systems operating in co-channel interference using the generalized transformed characteristic function

Abstract

An analytical framework to evaluate the exact performance of multihop amplify-and-forward relaying in the presence of co-channel interference is presented. The new results are formulated based on the recently introduced generalized transformed characteristic function method. The new framework is used to evaluate the exact performance measures such as average symbol error probability, outage probability and ergodic capacity, when the multihop relaying system is operating in identically distributed fading channels with equal power interferers at the relays and the destination.