Equal-gain and maximal-ratio combining over nonidentical weibull fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 841-846

  Karagiannidis, George K ^a,b   Zogas, Dimitris A ^c   Sagias, Nikos C ^d   Kotsopoulos, Stavros A ^c   Tombras, George S ^d  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amount of fading (AoF); Correlated fading; Equalgain combining (EGC); Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Outage probability; Spectral efficiency (SE); Weibull fading channels

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMOUNT OF FADING (AOF); CORRELATED FADING; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING (EGC); MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING (MRC); OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY (SE); WEIBULL FADING CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 18844437057     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.846982     Document Type: Article

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