Noncoherent diversity reception over nakagami-fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 985-991

  Patenaude, François ^a   Lodge, John H ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differential phase shift keying; Diversity methods; Envelope detection; Fading channels; Frequency shift keying; Phase detection

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION THEORY; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); NAKAGAMI-FADING CHANNELS; NONCOHERENT DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0032137514     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.705391     Document Type: Article

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