Is amplify-and-forward practically better than decode-and-forward or vice versa?

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn III, Issue , 2005, Pages 365-368

  Yu, Meng ^a   Li, Jing ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; TURBO CODES;

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD (AF); DECODE-AND-FORWARD (DF); DETRIMENTAL FACTOR;

DECODING;

EID: 33646758197     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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