Performance analysis of land mobile satelliteterrestrial systems with selection relaying

In this paper, we present the outage probability analysis of the hybrid integrated satellite-terrestrial communication systems, where the reliability of the system is increased by using the cooperative relay. The closed-form expression of the outage probability is derived for the case when the propagation of the satellite-terrestrial links is described by using the shadowed Ricean fading model and the propagation of the terrestrial links is described by using the Nakagami fading model, both with integer-valued fading parameters. The analysis takes into account the system geometry and realistic channel parameters. The presented numerical results are verified by using the independent Monte Carlo simulation method.