Performance of generalized selection combining over Weibull fading channels

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1077-1084

  Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a   Simon, Marvin K ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity techniques; Fading channel; Performance analysis; Selection combining

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES; GENERALIZED SELECTION COMBINING (GSC); WEIBULL FADING CHANNELS;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 33845589972     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.294     Document Type: Article

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