Bit error outage for diversity reception in shadowing environment

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-17

  Conti, Andrea ^a   Win, Moe Z ^b   Chiani, Marco ^a   Winters, Jack H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error outage (BEO); Diversity reception; Fading channel

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; OUTAGES; RAYLEIGH FADING;

BIT ERROR OUTAGES (BEO);

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0037250825     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2002.807436     Document Type: Article

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