Power line enhanced cooperative wireless communications

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1401-1410

  Kuhn, Marc ^a   Berger, Stefan ^a   Hammerström, Ingmar ^a   Wittneben, Armin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooperative wireless relaying; Linear precoding; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; Power line communication (PLC); Precoded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; ELECTRIC WIRING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COOPERATIVE WIRELESS RELAYING; LINEAR PRECODING; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE- OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; POWER LINE COMMUNICATION (PLC);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746395148     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.874407     Document Type: Article

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