Suraweera, H.A.Smith, P.J.Armstrong, J.2008-12-022008-12-022006Suraweera, H.A., Smith, P.J., Armstrong, J. (2006) Outage probability of cooperative relay networks in Nakagami-m fading channels. Communications Letters, 10(12), pp. 834-836.http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1885It is well known that the cooperation among nodes can improve the performance of a wireless network. In this letter we analyze the outage probability behaviour of a relay network in Nakagami-m fading channels. A closed-form solution for the outage probability is derived. When m = 1, the results are applicable for Rayleigh fading. Computer simulations confirm the presented mathematical analysis.en©2006 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.cooperative diversitymultihop transmissionoutage probabilityNakagami-m channelsJournal ArticleFields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::291700 Communications Technologies::291703 Digital systemsFields of Research::230000 Mathematical Sciences::230200 Statistics::230201 Probability theoryhttps://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2006.060834