A unified approach to the performance analysis of digital communication over generalized fading channels

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1860-1877

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication channels; Differential phase shift keying; Digital communication; Dispersive channels; Diversity methods; Fading channels; Frequency shift keying; Phase shift keying; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

GENERALIZED FADING CHANNELS;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032162383     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.705532     Document Type: Article

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