Harmonic Mean and End-to-End Performance of Transmission Systems With Relays

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 130-135

  Hasna, Mazen O ^a   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Average bit error rate (BER); Collaborative cooperative multiuser diversity; Harmonic mean; Multihop transmission; Nakagami fading; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSMITTERS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

HARMONIC MEAN MULTIHOP TRANSMISSION; NAKAGAMI FADING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 1342286787     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822185     Document Type: Article

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