Maximum likelihood estimation of local average SNR in ricean fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 219-221

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Chen, Yunfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fading channels; Maximum likelihood estimation; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; FADING CHANNELS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 15744405085     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.03016     Document Type: Article

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