Appendix A: Proof of Lemma 1
It is straight forward to obtain Lemma 1 as below
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \varPhi \left( {a,b,k} \right) =&\Pr \left( {a{{\left| {{h_k}} \right| }^2} \ge b{{\left| {{f_k}} \right| }^2} + 1} \right) \\ =&\int \limits _0^\infty {\left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{h_k}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{bx + 1}}{a}} \right) } \right) {f_{{{\left| {{f_k}} \right| }^2}}}\left( x \right) dx} \\ =&\frac{{\exp \left( {-1} \big / {\left( {a{\beta _h}} \right) } \right) }}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_f}} \right) \beta _f^{{m_f}}}}\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\frac{1}{{\beta _h^n{a^n}}}} \int \limits _0^\infty {\frac{{{{\left( {bx + 1} \right) }^n}{x^{{m_f} - 1}}}}{{n!}}{{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - x\left( {\frac{1}{{{\beta _f}}} + \frac{b}{{a{\beta _h}}}} \right) }}dx}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(47)
It can be simplified \( \varPhi \left( {a,b,k} \right) \) as below
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \varPhi \left( {a,b,k} \right) =&\frac{\exp \left( { - 1} \big / {\left( {a{\beta _h}} \right) } \right) }{\varGamma \left( {{m_f}} \right) \beta _f^{{m_f}}}\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\sum \limits _{k = 0}^n {\left( \begin{array}{c} n\\ k \end{array} \right) } \frac{1}{{\beta _h^n{a^n}}}\frac{{{b^k}}}{{n!}}} \int \limits _0^\infty {{x^{k + {m_f} - 1}}{{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - x\left( {\frac{1}{{{\beta _f}}} + \frac{b}{{a{\beta _h}}}} \right) }}dx}\\ =&\frac{\exp \left( - 1 \big / \left( {a{\beta _h}} \right) \right) }{\varGamma \left( {{m_f}} \right) \beta _f^{{m_f}}}\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\sum \limits _{k = 0}^n {\left( \begin{array}{c} n\\ k \end{array} \right) } \frac{1}{{\beta _h^n{a^n}}}} \frac{{{b^k}}}{{n!}}{\left( {\frac{1}{{{\beta _f}}} + \frac{b}{{a{\beta _h}}}} \right) ^{ - k - {m_f}}}\varGamma \left( {k + {m_f}} \right) . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(48)
The last step can be obtained by applying (Eq. 1.111) in [39], and the integration is derived thank to (Eq. 3.381.4) in [39]. Thus, the lemma is proved.
Appendix B: Proof of Proposition 1
Based on the definition of MM mode using (18), the system outage is given by (49), shown in the top of the next page.
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} O{P_{MM}} =&\Pr \left( {\min \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_{{b_{MM}}}} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_{{b_{MM}}}},{d_1}}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_{{b_{MM}}}},{d_2} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_{{b_{MM}}}} \leftarrow 2}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_{{b_{MM}}}},{d_2}}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}} \right)< 1} \right) \\ =&\Pr \left( {{\max }_{k \in {{\mathcal S}_{\mathcal R}}} \left( {\min \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 2}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}} \right) } \right) < 1} \right) . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(49)
Additionally, due to the independence of channels, (49) can be simplified as
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} O{P_{MM}} =&\prod \limits _{k = 1}^M {\Pr \left( {\min \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 2}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}} \right) < 1} \right) } \\ =&\prod \limits _{k = 1}^M {1 - \Pr \left( {\min \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 2}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}} \right) \ge 1} \right) } \\ =&\prod \limits _{k = 1}^M {1 - \Pr \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}} \ge 1,\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}} \ge 1,\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}} \ge 1,\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 2}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}} \ge 1,\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}} \ge 1} \right) }. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(50)
The expression in multiplication can be further expressed as (51).
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \Pr \left( {\min \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k} \leftarrow 2}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}} \right) \ge 1} \right) \Pr \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}} \ge 1} \right) \Pr \left( {\min \left( {\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2} \leftarrow 1}}}}{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{{\gamma _{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}} \right) \ge 1} \right) . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(51)
Finally, with the same step in (45), the Theorem 1 is derived.
This completes the proof.
Appendix C: Proof of Proposition 3
The above probability \({\eta _1}\) can be calculated as
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\eta _1} =&\Pr \left\{ {\min \left\{ {\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }},\max \left( {0,\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }}} \right) } \right\} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}:{r_b} \in {{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}} \right\} \\ =&\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}> \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}},\min \left\{ {\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }},\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }}} \right\} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}:{r_b} \in {{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}} \right\} \\&+ \underbrace{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \le \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}},0 \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}:{r_b} \in {{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}} \right\} }_{ = 0} \\ =&\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}},\underbrace{\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}}_{ \buildrel \varDelta \over = {\varpi _1}},\underbrace{\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}}_{ \buildrel \varDelta \over = {\varpi _2}}:{r_b} \in {{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}} \right\} . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(52)
With the condition \({\rho _r}{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}} > 0\) \( \Leftrightarrow {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}\) \( \Rightarrow \max \left( {0,\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }}} \right) = \frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }}\).
We calculate \({\varpi _1}\)
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varpi _1} =&\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\\ =&{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| ^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }}\\ =&{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| ^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}}, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(53)
where \({\rho _r}{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| ^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}} > 0\) \( \Leftrightarrow {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| ^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}\) and \({\varepsilon _1} = \delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) \).
We calculate \({\varpi _2}\)
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varpi _2} =&\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\\ =&{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}\left( {1 + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}\\ =&{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(54)
where \(\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}> \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}\\ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \end{array}} \right. \Leftrightarrow {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2} > \max \left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}},\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) \) \( \Rightarrow {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}\) and \({\varepsilon _2} = {\varepsilon _1} + \delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}\).
From \({\varpi _1}\) and \({\varpi _2}\), we have new result as follow
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\eta _1} = \Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}:{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(55)
We apply the Bayes theorem: \({\mathrm{P}}\left( {{\mathrm{A'}}\left| {\mathrm{C}} \right. } \right) {\mathrm{= }}\frac{{{\mathrm{P}}\left( {{\mathrm{A'}},{\mathrm{C}}} \right) }}{{{\mathrm{P}}\left( {\mathrm{C}} \right) }}\), where \( {\mathrm{P}}\left( {{\mathrm{A',C}}} \right) \) is computed as follow, while \({\mathrm{P}}\left( {\mathrm{C}} \right) = \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} \).
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\mathrm{P}}\left( {{\mathrm{A',C}}} \right) = \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(56)
It is worth noting that \( {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| ^2} \ge {\mathrm{}}\frac{{\delta _1^{{\mathrm{th}}}}}{{{\rho _r} - \frac{{{\varepsilon _1}}}{{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}}} \) because \(\frac{{{\varepsilon _1}}}{{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}} \ge 0\).
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \Rightarrow {\rho _r} - \frac{{{\varepsilon _1}}}{{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}} \le {\rho _r} \Leftrightarrow \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}\\ \Rightarrow \max \left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) = \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(57)
After the analysis, \({\eta _1}\) is calculated by
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\eta _1} =&\frac{{{\mathrm{P}}\left( {{\mathrm{A'}},{\mathrm{C}}} \right) }}{{{\mathrm{P}}\left( {\mathrm{C}} \right) }}\\ =&\frac{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}> \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}> \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}\\ =&\frac{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \max \left\{ {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} ,{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}> \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}\\ =&\frac{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(58)
We have
$$\begin{aligned} {\eta _1} =&\frac{{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} - {\varepsilon _1}}},{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }}{{1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) }}. \end{aligned}$$
(59)
Now, we have new variables as \(X = {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| ^2},Y = {\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2}\). Next, \({\eta _1}\) is calculated as follow
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\eta _1} =&\frac{{\int _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\left( {1 - {F_X}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}Y}}{{{\rho _r}Y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) } \right) {f_Y}\left( y \right) dy} }}{{1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) }}\\ =&\frac{{{\varPhi _1}}}{{{\varPhi _2}}} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(60)
It is necessary to calculate \({\varPhi _1}\) and \({\varPhi _2}\) respectively as bellows. By using partial integration, we have
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varPhi _1} =&\int _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\left( {1 - {F_X}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}Y}}{{{\rho _r}Y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) } \right) {f_Y}\left( y \right) dy} \\ =&\int _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) } \right) {f_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) dy}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(61)
Then, \( {\varPhi _1} \) is rewritten as
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varPhi _1} =&\underbrace{\left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) } \right) {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) }_{ \buildrel \varDelta \over = {\varphi _1}}\\&- \underbrace{\int \limits _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\frac{{{\varepsilon _1}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{{\left( {{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }^2}}}{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) {f_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) dy} }_{ \buildrel \varDelta \over = {\varphi _2}}, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(62)
where \( {\varphi _1} \) and \({\varphi _2}\) are computed as follows
$$\begin{aligned}&\begin{aligned} {\varphi _1} =&\left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) } \right) {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) |\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} \infty \\ {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \end{array}\\ =&\left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) } \right) - \left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}\left( {{\varepsilon _2} - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}} \right) } \right) \\&\times {\left( {1 - {{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{\rho _r}}}}}\sum \limits _{{n_1} = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{{n_1}!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}^{{n_1}}}}} {{\left( {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) }^{{n_1}}}} \right) ^i}\\ =&{{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}}}}}{\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{n!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}^n}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) } ^n}\\&- {{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}\left( {{\varepsilon _2} - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}}}\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{n!\beta _{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}^n}}} {\left( {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}\left( {{\varepsilon _2} - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}} \right) ^n}\\&\times {\left( {1 - {{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}{\rho _r}}}}}\sum \limits _{{n_1} = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{{n_1}!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}^{{n_1}}}}} {{\left( {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) }^{{n_1}}}} \right) ^i}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(63)
$$\begin{aligned}&\begin{aligned} {\varphi _2} =&\int \limits _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\frac{{{\varepsilon _1}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{{\left( {{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }^2}}}{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) {f_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) dy} \\ =&\frac{1}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}} \right) \beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}}}}\int \limits _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\frac{{{\varepsilon _1}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{{\left( {{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }^2}}}{{\left( {1 - {{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{y}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}}}}}\sum \limits _{{n_2} = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{{n_2}!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}^{{n_2}}}}} {y^{{n_2}}}} \right) }^i}} \\&\times {\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) ^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}} - 1}}{{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}\left( {{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}}}dy. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(64)
Since the CDF of \({\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| ^2}\), e.g. , \({F_Y}\left( y \right) = {\left( {{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) } \right) ^i}\), then it can be achieved PDF as follow
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {f_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) =&{\left( {{{\left( {{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) } \right) }^i}} \right) ^\prime }\\ =&i \times {\left( {{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) } \right) ^{i - 1}}{\left( {{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) } \right) ^\prime }\\ =&i \times {\left( {{F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) } \right) ^{i - 1}}{f_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( y \right) \\ =&i {\left( {1 - {{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{y}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}}}}}\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{n!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}^n}}} {y^n}} \right) ^{i - 1}}\frac{{{y^{{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}}} - 1}}}}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}}}} \right) \beta _{{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}}^{{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}}}}}}{{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{y}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_b},{d_2}}}}}}}}}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(65)
Finally, we have
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varPhi _1} =&{\varphi _1} - {\varphi _2}\\ =&\exp \left( { - \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}}}} \right) {\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{n!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}^n}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) } ^n}\\&- \exp \left( { - \frac{{{\varepsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}\left( {{\varepsilon _2} - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}} \right) \sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{n!\beta _{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}^n}}} {\left( {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}\left( {{\varepsilon _2} - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}} \right) ^n}\\&\times {\left( {1 - \exp \left( { - \frac{1}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}}}\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) \sum \limits _{{n_1} = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{{n_1}!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}^{{n_1}}}}} {{\left( {\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) }^{{n_1}}}} \right) ^i}\\&- \frac{1}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}} \right) \beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}}}}\int \limits _{\frac{{{\varepsilon _2}}}{{{\rho _r}}}}^\infty {\frac{{{\varepsilon _1}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{{\left( {{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }^2}}}{{\left( {1 - {{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{y}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}}}}}}\sum \limits _{{n_2} = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}} - 1} {\frac{1}{{{n_2}!\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_2}}}}^{{n_2}}}}} {y^{{n_2}}}} \right) }^i}} \\&\times {\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right) ^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}} - 1}}\exp \left( { - \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}y}}{{{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}\left( {{\rho _r}y - {\varepsilon _1}} \right) }}} \right) dy. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(66)
and
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varPhi _2} =&1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) \\ =&1 - 1 - \frac{1}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}}} \right) }}\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}},\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}}}}} \right) \\ =&\frac{1}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}}} \right) }}\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}},\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}}}}}} \right) \\ =&{{\mathrm{e}} ^{ - \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}}}}}\sum \limits _{{n_3} = 0}^{{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}} - 1} {\frac{{{{\left( {\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}} \right) }^{{n_3}}}}}{{{n_3}!\rho _r^{{n_3}}\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}^{{n_3}}}}}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(67)
Substituting (66) and (67) into (60), \( \eta _1 \) can be computed.
Defining \({\varOmega _\theta }\) as the probability that the relay \({r_i}\) is in the active relay set \({{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}\), the \({\varOmega _\theta }\) can be mathematically formulated as
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {\varOmega _\theta } \buildrel \varDelta \over =&\Pr \left( {{r_i} \in {{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}} \right) \\ =&\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{h_i}} \right| }^2} \ge \chi ,{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}> \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} \\ =&\underbrace{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{h_i}} \right| }^2} \ge \chi } \right\} }_{ \buildrel \varDelta \over = \varphi _1^*} \times \underbrace{\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{g_{{r_b},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2} > \frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right\} }_{ \buildrel \varDelta \over = \varphi _2^*}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(68)
We have
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \varphi _1^* =&\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{h_i}} \right| }^2} \ge \chi } \right\} \\ =&\Pr \left\{ {{{\left| {{h_i}} \right| }^2} \ge \frac{\mu }{{{\rho _s}}}\left( {{\rho _r}{{\left| {{f_k}} \right| }^2} + 1} \right) } \right\} \\ =&\int \limits _0^\infty {\left( {1 - {F_{{{\left| {{h_i}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{\mu }{{{\rho _s}}}\left( {{\rho _r}x + 1} \right) } \right) } \right) } {f_{{{\left| {{f_k}} \right| }^2}}}\left( x \right) dx\\ =&\int \limits _0^\infty {\left( {1 - \left( {1 - \exp \left( { - \frac{\mu }{{{\beta _h}{\rho _s}}}\left( {{\rho _r}x + 1} \right) } \right) \sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\frac{{{\mu ^n}{{\left( {{\rho _r}x + 1} \right) }^n}}}{{n!\rho _s^n\beta _h^n}}} } \right) } \right) } \frac{{{x^{{m_{{f_k}}} - 1}}}}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{f_k}}}} \right) \beta _{{f_k}}^{{m_{{f_k}}}}}}\exp \left( { - \frac{x}{{{\beta _{{f_k}}}}}} \right) dx\\ =&\exp \left( { - \frac{\mu }{{{\beta _h}{\rho _s}}}} \right) \int \limits _0^\infty {\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\frac{{{\mu ^n}{{\left( {{\rho _r}x + 1} \right) }^n}}}{{n!\rho _s^n\beta _h^n}}} } \frac{{{x^{{m_{{f_k}}} - 1}}}}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{f_k}}}} \right) \beta _{{f_k}}^{{m_{{f_k}}}}}}\exp \left( { - \left( {\frac{1}{{{\beta _{{f_k}}}}} + \frac{{\mu {\rho _r}}}{{{\beta _h}{\rho _s}}}} \right) x} \right) dx\\ =&\frac{\exp \left( - \mu \big / \beta _h{\rho _s} \right) }{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{f_k}}}} \right) \beta _{{f_k}}^{{m_{{f_k}}}}}\int \limits _0^\infty {\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\sum \limits _{k = 0}^n {\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} n\\ k \end{array}} \right) } \rho _r^k\frac{{{\mu ^n}}}{{n!\rho _s^n\beta _h^n}}} } {x^{k + {m_{{f_k}}} - 1}}\exp \left( { - \left( {\frac{1}{{{\beta _{{f_k}}}}} + \frac{{\mu {\rho _r}}}{{{\beta _h}{\rho _s}}}} \right) x} \right) dx\\ =&\frac{\exp \left( - \mu \big / {\beta _h}{\rho _s} \right) }{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{f_k}}}} \right) \beta _{{f_k}}^{{m_{{f_k}}}}}\sum \limits _{n = 0}^{{m_h} - 1} {\sum \limits _{k = 0}^n {\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} n\\ k \end{array}} \right) } \rho _r^k\frac{{{\mu ^n}}}{{n!\rho _s^n\beta _h^n}}} {\left( {\frac{1}{{{\beta _{{f_k}}}}} + \frac{{\mu {\rho _r}}}{{{\beta _h}{\rho _s}}}} \right) ^{ - k - {m_{{f_k}}}}}\varGamma \left( {k + {m_{{f_k}}}} \right) . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(69)
where \(\mu = \max \left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\upsilon _1} - {\upsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\upsilon _2}}}} \right) \), \(\chi = \max \left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\upsilon _1} - {\upsilon _2}\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}},\frac{{\delta _2^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\upsilon _2}}}} \right) \left( {\frac{{{\rho _r}{{\left| {{f_k}} \right| }^2} + 1}}{{{\rho _s}}}} \right) \).
It is further to have \( \varphi _2^* \) computed by
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \varphi _2^* =&1 - {F_{{{\left| {{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}} \right| }^2}}}\left( {\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}}}} \right) \\ =&\frac{1}{{\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}} \right) }}\varGamma \left( {{m_{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}},\frac{{\delta _1^{\mathrm{th}}}}{{{\rho _r}{\beta _{{g_{{r_k},{d_1}}}}}}}} \right) . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(70)
Then, the probability for the event that there are \({r_i}\) active relays in \({{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}\) can be evaluated as follows:
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \Pr \left( {\left| {{{\mathcal B}_{\mathcal R}}} \right| = i} \right) = \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} M\\ i \end{array}} \right) {\left( {{\varOmega _\theta }} \right) ^i}{\left( {1 - {\varOmega _\theta }} \right) ^{M - i}}. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(71)
Substituting result of (60) and (71) into (44), the outage probability of considered system can be computed as in Proposition 3. This completes the proof.