Performance analysis of L-branch equal gain combiners in equally correlated Rayleigh fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-152

  Chen, Yunxia ^a   Tellambura, Chintha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cumulative distribution function; Diversity; Equal gain combining (EGC); Equally correlated Rayleigh fading channels; Symbol error rate (SER)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; EQUALLY CORRELATED RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS; SYMBOL ERROR RATE;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 1942424209     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2004.825722     Document Type: Article

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