On the distribution of the weighted sum of L Independent Rician and Nakagami envelopes in the presence of AWGN

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 112-119

  Karagiannidis, George K ^a   Kotsopoulos, Stavros A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Diversity; Equal gain combining; Mobile satellite communications; Nakagami fading; Rician fading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038844017     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/jcn.2001.6596855     Document Type: Article

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