A closed-form expression for the outage probability of decode-and-forward relaying in dissimilar Rayleigh fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 813-815

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Hu, Jeremiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decode and forward; Distributed spatial diversity; Relay channel

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; PROBABILITY; RADIO LINKS;

DECODE-AND-FORWARD; DISTRIBUTED SPATIAL DIVERSITY; RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS; RELAY CHANNEL;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 33845790231     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.061048     Document Type: Article

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