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In this paper, we study the effective capacity (EC) which was proposed to measure the quality of service (QoS) for fading channels. A unified expression for the effective capacity based on the method of moment generating function (MGF) is proposed. The unified expression applies to various fading channels and is derived for both single antenna and multiple antenna diversity system. The mathematical expression is illustrated with Nakagami-m fading channels and closed form expressions are derived in this case. The simulation results verify the consistence of the closed-form expressions with numerical evaluations.

In this paper, we study the different channel estimation strategies applied in an AF network, including ordinary channel estimation which estimate the whole source-relay-destination (SRD) channel at the destination, and a new proposed equalized AF (EAF) which make channel estimation separately at relay node and destination node. The EAF carries out the equalization at relay node by the channel estimation, which leads to performance improvement. The analysis of achievable rates is given and the performance benefit of EAF is verified by both numeric and realistic simulation.

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The statistical properties of relay channel are quite different from the direct transmission channel for including two phases channel of source to relay and relay to destination. In this paper, we study the relay channel from three viewpoints of probability density function (PDF), level crossing rate (LCR) and Doppler spectrum for Rayleigh, Rice and Nakagami fading models. The closed form expressions are deduced, and simulation evaluation is done to verify the results.