Equal gain combining over nakagami-n (Rice) and nakagami-q (Hoyt) generalized fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 374-379

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amount of fading; Average error probability; Equal gain combining (EGC); Nakagami n (rice) fading; Nakagami q (hoyt) fading

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FADING (RADIO); GAIN CONTROL; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AMOUNT OF FADING; AVERAGE ERROR PROBABILITY; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING (EGC); NAKAGAMI-N (RICE) FADING; NAKAGAMI-Q(HOYT) FADING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 17144414846     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.842953     Document Type: Article

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