BER Performance of Dual Predetection EGC in Correlative Nakagami-m Fading

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-53

  Karagiannidis, George K ^a   Zogas, Dimitris A ^b   Kotsopoulos, Stavros A ^b  

^a Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Correlated fading; Diversity; Equal gain combiners (EGCs); Nakagami m fading channels

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CORRELATED FADING; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINERS (EGC); NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 1342286789     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822166     Document Type: Article

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