Asymptotic performance of hybrid-selection/maximal-ratio combining over fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 770-777

  Ma, Yao ^a   Wang, Zhengdao ^a   Pasupathy, Subbarayan ^b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coding gain; Diversity gain; Error and outage probabilities; Generalized selection combining (GSC); Hybrid selection maximal ratio combining (HS MRC)

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CODING GAIN; DIVERSITY GAIN; FADING CHANNELS; HYBRID-SELECTION/MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 33646938981     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.874013     Document Type: Article

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