Application of the Dirichlet transformation to the performance evaluation of generalized selection combining over Nakagami-m fading channels

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-13

  Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a   Simon, Marvin K ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Selection Combining; Hybrid SC MRC; Maximal ratio combining diversity; Nakagami m fading; Selection Combining

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002779754     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JCN.1999.6596692     Document Type: Article

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