On the SNR penalty of MPSK with hybrid selection/maximal ratio combining over i.i.d. Rayleigh fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1012-1023

  Win, Moe Z ^a,b   Beaulieu, Norman C ^c   Shepp, Lawrence A ^d   Logan Jr , Benjamin F ^e   Winters, Jack H ^a,f  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Jack Winters Communications LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity combining; Error probability; Fading channels; Hybrid selection maximal ratio combining (H S MRC); Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Selection diversity (SD)

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SELECTION DIVERSITY (SD);

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 0038383123     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.813183     Document Type: Article

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