Exact closed-form expression for the bit error rate of orthogonal STBC in Nakagami fading channels

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2493-2497

  Maaref, Amine ^a   Aïssa, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BLOCK CODES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; WHITE ACOUSTIC NOISE;

MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; NAKAGAMI FADING; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING (STBC);

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 17144369128     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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