Ergodic Capacity and SNR Analysis for Dual Hop Amplify and Forward Cooperative Communication Systems Over α-η-μ Channels.

Dual-hop communication systems are known to extend coverage and reduce transmit power in scenarios where one-hop communication is not possible. The α - η - μ fading distribution is a general fading distribution that can be reduced to other fading distributions like Rayleigh, Nakagami-m, α-μ, and η-μ. In this paper, we study the statistics of the end-to-end signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a dual-hop...