Diversity combining for DS/SS systems with time-varying, correlated fading branches

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 284-295

  Gao, Wen ^a,b   Tsai, Shiauhe ^a,c   Lehnert, James S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Thomson   (United States)

^c ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autoregressive processes; Correlated fading channels; Direct sequence spread spectrum communication; Diversity methods; Expectation maximization method; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; FADING (RADIO); KALMAN FILTERING;

AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESSES;

DIRECT SEQUENCE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037314079     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.809275     Document Type: Article

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