Threshold-based hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining over generalized fading channels

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 462-468

  Zhang, Xiaodi ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNLES; LINEAR MODULATION; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINATION (MRC); MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTIONS (MGF);

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 18144395857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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