... pagesdoi:10.1155/2010/649541 Research Article Performance Analysis of Two-Hop OSTBC Transmission overRayleigh Fading ChannelsGuangping Li,1Steven D. Blostein,2and Jiay in Qin31Faculty of Information Engineering, ... recentstandards [4]. This paper investigates the effect of simplerelaying on MIMO system performance. Previously, end-to-end performance of two-hop relay systems was studied in [5–7], including outage ... 347–351,2008.[9] R. H. Y. Louie, Y. Li, and B. Vucetic, Performance analysis of beamforming in two hop amplify and forward relaynetworks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conferenceon Communications...