Performance analysis of MRC diversity for arbitrary rectangular QAM signals over Nakagami fading channels

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E87-B, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1297-1305

  Hyun, Kwangmin ^a   Yoon, Dongweon ^a   Park, Sang Kyu ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BER; Diversity; Fading; MRC; QAM; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIVERSITY FADING; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); SATISTICAL MODELS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 2642518796     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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