%0 Journal Article %A Oluseye Adeniyi Adeleke and Mohd Fadzli Salleh %D 2014 %J International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 85, 2014 %T Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Diversity in Flat Fading Channel with Error Control Coding %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997823 %V 85 %X Cooperative communication provides transmit diversity, even when, due to size constraints, mobile units cannot accommodate multiple antennas. A versatile cooperation method called coded cooperation has been developed, in which cooperation is implemented through channel coding with a view to controlling the errors inherent in wireless communication. In this work we evaluate the performance of coded cooperation in flat Rayleigh fading environment using a concept known as the pair wise error probability (PEP). We derive the PEP for a flat fading scenario in coded cooperation and then compare with the signal-to-noise ratio of the users in the network. Results show that an increase in the SNR leads to a decrease in the PEP. We also carried out simulations to validate the result. %P 201 - 204