Performance analysis of three-branch selection combining over arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh-fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 861-865

  Chen, Yunxia ^a,b   Tellambura, Chintha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated Rayleigh fading; Diversity; Moment generating function (mgf); Selection combining (SC)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CORRELATED RAYLEIGH FADING; DIVERSITY; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION (MGF); SELECTION COMBINING (SC);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 18844431127     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.847109     Document Type: Article

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