Maximal-ratio combining over Nakagami fading channels with an arbitrary branch covariance matrix

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1141-1150

  Zhang, Q T ^a,b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARBITRARY BRANCH COVARIANCE MATRIX; LAND MOBILE DIVERSITY SYSTEMS; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINERS; NAKAGAMI FADING CHANNELS;

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0032593393     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.775363     Document Type: Article

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