Performance Analysis of MIMO Hybrid Satellite Terrestrial Multi-Relay Networks over Fading Channels

Abstract

The high-speed access development led to increase the demand of new services, more frequently audio and video media for communication purposes. Due to the advantages of satellite wide coverage, the satellite communications networks are suitable for medium filling white zones and gray areas, while the terrestrial Networks cannot be covered. Accordingly to the new term called Hybrid Satellite Terrestrial Networks (HSTNs), many communication technologies are assumed to be important increasingly in all sectors to achieve daily people’s demands. In the last decade, cooperative communications researchers has been improved, producing advanced technologies based on optimal communication strategies. The word cooperation has been used for multiple context such as; transmitter cooperation, and relay cooperation. However, in this dissertation, the proposed hybrid satellite communication system will exploit the cooperation of nodes to increase the boundary of the communication performance such as; decreasing the probability of error, decreasing the outage probability, and increasing the capacity of the whole system. This calibration of the cooperation communication system with the hybrid satellite terrestrial networks will lead us to a new definition for the hybrid networks so called Hybrid satellite Terrestrial Cooperative Networks (HSTCNs).