Dual diversity over correlated log-normal fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1946-1959

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amount of fading; Diversity reception; Equal gain combining (EGC); Fading correlation; Log normal fading; Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Outage probability; Selection combining (SC); Switched combining

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CORRELATION METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SWITCHED COMBINING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 0036993835     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2002.806552     Document Type: Article

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