MRC diversity for binary signals in correlated Nakagami fading

Signal Processing

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-57

  Lombardo, Pierfrancesco ^a   Fedele, Gennaro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; Diversity methods; Fading channels; Moment generating function

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CORRELATION THEORY; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VECTORS;

MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINERS (MRC); NAKAGAMI FADING;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 0032074151     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(98)00021-8     Document Type: Article

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