Research Article

On Performance of Full-Duplex Decode-and-Forward Relay Systems with an Optimal Power Setting under the Impact of Hardware Impairments

Table 1

List of the frequently used mathematical notations.

NotationDescription

The average transmit power at the source node
The average transmit power at the relay node
The probability of an event
OPOutage probability
Exact OP of the case with hardware impairments
Exact OP of the case with ideal hardware
Approximate OP of the case with hardware impairments
Cumulative distribution function (CDF)
Probability density function (PDF)
Complex Gaussian distribution with mean and variance of
The expectation operator
The instantaneous channel gain
The average power of the channel gain
SEPSymbol error probability