Performance analysis of diversity combining algorithms in shadowed fading channels

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 61-72

  Shankar, P M ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rates; Diversity combining; Fading and shadowing; MRC and SC algorithms; Rayleigh lognormal (RL) fading; Shadowed fading channels

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY COMBINING; FADING AND SHADOWING; MRC AND SC ALGORITHMS; RAYLEIGH-LOGNORMAL (RL) FADING; SHADOWED FADING CHANNELS;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 33744922633     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-006-1080-9     Document Type: Article

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