Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) plays a fundamental role in the realization of Internet of Things and Industry .

Arising from the presence of spatially distributed sensor nodes in a sensor network, cooperative diversity can be achieved by using the sensor nodes between a given source-destination pair as intermediate relay stations.

The end-to-end average bit error rate (BER) and the channel capacity of a multhop relay network in the presence of impulsive noise modelled can be determined by the well-known Middleton’s class-A model.

A multi-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relay network over Nakagami-m fading channel can be considered due to its generality, but also due to the absence of reported works in this area.

Closed-form analytical expressions for the end-to-end average BER and the statistical properties of the end-to-end channel capacity can also be obtained.