Level crossing rate and average fade duration of MRC and EGC diversity in Ricean fading

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 722-726

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Dong, Xiaofei ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Gennum Corporation   (Canada)

^c Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity methods; Fade duration; Fading channels; Level crossing rate

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EQUAL GAIN COMBINER; FADE DURATION; FADING CHANNELS; LEVEL CROSSING RATE; MAXIMAL RATION COMBINER;

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0038377200     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.811380     Document Type: Letter

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