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Besides, the terrestrial relay is working in half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) mode. By employing a general and practical model to account for both the CEEs and HIs at each link, the end-to-end signal-to-noise-plus-distortion-and-error ratio (SNDER) is first obtained for the CSTRN. Then, closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) and throughput of the CSTRN are obtained, which allows us to demonstrate the aggregate impact of CEEs and HIs. In order to gain insightful findings, we further elaborate on the asymptotic OP and throughput at the high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) condition and quantitatively determine the fundamental performance ceiling. Finally, Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulations are provided to verify the correctness of the analytical results. Besides, with representative numerical analysis\u2019s help, interesting findings are presented.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18103292","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,2]],"date-time":"2018-10-02T08:23:50Z","timestamp":1538468630000},"page":"3292","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["On the Performance of Cognitive Satellite-Terrestrial Relay Networks with Channel Estimation Error and Hardware Impairments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7535-2057","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kefeng","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA(Its Old Name Is PLA University of Science and Technology), Nanjing 210007, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kang","family":"An","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing 210016, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bangning","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA(Its Old Name Is PLA University of Science and Technology), Nanjing 210007, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuzhen","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Beijing 100091, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daoxing","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA(Its Old Name Is PLA University of Science and Technology), Nanjing 210007, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Tse, D., and Viswanath, P. 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