SPARCO: Stochastic Performance Analysis with Reliability and Cooperation for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 7

Outage probability for direct versus relay communication after equal intervals of SNR.

Type of data transfer	BER at SNR 0 dB	BER at SNR 5 dB	BER at SNR 10 dB	BER at SNR 15 dB	BER at SNR 20 dB
Direct	0.125	0.067	0.05	0.03	0.28
Relay	0.125	0.05	0.02	0.01	0.004