“…While these contributions are significant in their own right, their description in the literature has some limitations, which are: † the conventional OR network considered in [13,15,16] does not cover the case of a spectrally efficient OHIR network; † the analysis in [13,16] does not consider the diversity order of OR networks and the impact of system parameters on the error performance; † the performance analysis of OHIR networks in [9,10] is restricted to Rayleigh radio channels and does not cover the more realistic composite multipath fading channels, together with shadowing scenarios such as generalised-K and Nakagami-m radio channels, while the performance analysis in [9,10] does not provide information relating to the diversity and coding gains; and † the outage probability and the ASER expressions in [10,13,16] result in multi-level summations and the application of numerical techniques to solve the equations, which increase the computational complexity. The analysis in [14] considers an AF relaying scheme over cascaded generalised-K fading channels, but does not apply to schemes with opportunistic relay selection.…”