Exact BER analysis of an arbitrary square/rectangular QAM for MRC diversity with ICE in nonidentical Rayleigh fading channels

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2387-2391

  Najafizadeh, Laleh ^a   Tellambura, Chintha ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATION (ICE); MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINING (MRC); QUADRATIC AMPLITUDE MODULATION (QAM); RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 24144463695     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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