Level crossing rate in terms of the characteristic function: A new approach for calculating the fading rate in diversity systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1397-1400

  Abdi, Ali ^a,b   Kaveh, Mostafa ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; DS CDMA systems; Fading channels; Level crossing problems; RAKE receivers

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION; LEVEL CROSSING RATE; LEVEL-CROSSING PROBLEMS;

CALCULATIONS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIRECT SEQUENCE SYSTEMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 0036747141     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2002.802538     Document Type: Article

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