Approximate SER of H-S/MRC in Nakagami fading with arbitrary branch power correlation

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-60

  Zhang, Xiaodi ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated fading; Diversity; Hybrid selection maximal ratio combining (H S MRC); Nakagami fading; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Symbol error rate (SER)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CORRELATED FADING; GREEN MATRIX APPROXIMATION; HYBRID SELECTION/MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING (H-S/MRC); M-ARY PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; NAKAGAMI FADING; SYMBOL-ERROR RATE (SER);

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 31344461526     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.861670     Document Type: Article

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