Ashkan Kalantari - K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Ehsan Soleimani-Nasab
Mehrdad Ardebilipour

In this paper, we present the performance of re-lay networks utilizing best selection decode-and-forward over independent but nonidentical Nakagami-n fading channels. Using best-worse criterion, the outage probability, moment generation function, symbol error probability and average channel capacity are derived in closed-form using the SNR statistical character- istics for a dual-hop relay network with direct link. Finally, verifying the accuracy of analytical results, we perform some Monte-Carlo simulations