Performance of coherent receivers with hybrid SC/MRC over Nakagami-m fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1155-1164

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

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO LINKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIVERSITY COMBINING; EQUAL GAIN COMBINING; GENERALIZED SELECTIVE COMBINING; HYBRID SELECTIVE COMBINING DIVERSITY RECEIVERS; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING DIVERSITY RECEIVERS; MULTIPATH INTENSITY PROFILE; NAKAGAMI FADING CHANNELS; SELECTIVE COMBINING;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 0032593380     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.775365     Document Type: Article

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