On the performance analysis of equal-gain diversity receivers over generalized Gamma fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2967-2974

  Sagias, Nikos C ^a,b,c   Karagiannidis, George K ^a,d   Mathiopoulos, P Takis ^a,b   Tsiftsis, Theodoras A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Equal gain combining (EGC); Generalized fading channels; Generalized Gamma; Lognormal; Nakagami m; Outage probability; Sum of random variables; Weibull

Indexed keywords

EQUAL GAIN COMBINING (EGC); GENERALIZED FADING CHANNELS; GENERALIZED GAMMA; LOGNORMAL; NAKAGAMI-M; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SUM OF RANDOM VARIABLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33750050015     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2006.05301     Document Type: Article

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