Distributed space-time coding for multihop transmission in power line communication networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1389-1400

  Lampe, Lutz ^a,b   Schober, Robert ^a,b   Yiu, Simon ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broadcast channel; Collision channel; Distributed space time coding; Multihop transmission; Power line communication (PLC); Repeater

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST CHANNELS; COLLISION CHANNEL; DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME CODING; MULTIHOP TRANSMISSION; POWER LINE COMMUNICATION (PLC); REPEATER;

BROADCASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROUTERS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33746408231     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.874419     Document Type: Article

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