Outage Performance of Cooperative Satellite Diversity System Using Two Aerial Regenerative Relays

Cooperative Diversity Systems are used in latest generation networks for improving the reliability and the quality of service of wireless networks. Cooperative diversity techniques have been proposed offering significant values of diversity gain and increase the of system's availability. In this paper, the outage performance of a Selection Relaying cooperative system with two aerial regenerative relays is evaluated in terms of easily calculated integrals. Rician fading is assumed for the links between satellite and aerial relays, while shadowed Rician fading is assumed for the links between aerial and ground relays. Finally extended numerical results show the importance of the cooperative diversity systems and the effects of different shadowing conditions on the performance of the cooperative diversity system is presented.