Parametric Evaluation of Decode and Forward Relay Based Mixed Wireless Transmission System Over $\alpha-\mathcal{F}$ Fading Channels

This study examines the effectiveness of decode and forward relay-based mixed underwater acoustic and terrestrial radio frequency (RF) dual-hop wireless system. The presented system consists of an underwater autonomous vehicle (UAV) which communicates with an off shore destination via DF relay. The main objective of UAV is to sense the data from surroundings and pass it on to the destination. Underwater acoustic channel and terrestrial RF link, both are subjected to
$\alpha-\mathcal{F}$
fading. For the proposed system, we derived the closed-form representations of crucial performance indicators like outage probability and error probability in terms of Fox's H-functions.