Another look at the performance of MRC schemes in Nakagami-m fading channels with arbitrary parameters

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2002-2005

  Aalo, Valentine A ^a   Piboongungon, Terawat ^a,b   Efthymoglou, George P ^c  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^b TOT Corporation Public Company Ltd   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lauricella's hypergeometric functions; Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Nakagami m fading

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE (AWGN); LAURICELLA HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 30344460991     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.860089     Document Type: Article

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