Efficient Performance Evaluation for Generalized Selection Combining on Generalized Fading Channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-34

  Ma, Yao ^a,b   Pasupathy, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Error probability; Generalized fading channels; Generalized selection combining (GSC); Moment generating function (MGF); Outage probability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GENERALIZED FADING CHANNELS; GENERALIZED SELECTION COMBINING (GSC); MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION (MGF); OUTAGE PROBABILITY;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 2342484385     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.821130     Document Type: Article

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