A unified approach to the probability of error for noncoherent and differentially coherent modulations over generalized fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1625-1638

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multichannel reception; Nakagami fading; Noncoherent and differentially coherent communications; Postdetection diversity

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ERRORS; FADING (RADIO); MODULATION; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MULTICHANNEL RECEPTIONS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0032299730     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.737401     Document Type: Article

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