Error rates of M-ary signals with multichannel reception in nakagami-m fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-102

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b TOT Corporation Public Company Ltd   (Thailand)

^c Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypergeometric functions; Lauricella's; Maximal ratio combining; Nakagami m fading

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); SIGNAL DETECTION;

HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING; MULTICHANNEL RECEPTION; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; SYMBOL-ERROR RATE;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 32444449849     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.02022.     Document Type: Article

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