Equal-gain combining with unequal energy constellations

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1125-1132

  Karagiannidis, George K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Equal gain combining; M ary pulse amplitude modulation (M FAM); M ary square quadrature amplitude modulation (M QAM); Suboptimal bias; Symbol error probability; Unequal energy signaling

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSTELLATIONS; EQUAL GAIN COMBINING (EGC) RECEIVERS; FADING GAIN; M-ARY PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (M-FAM); M-ARY SQUARE QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (M-QAM); SUBOPTIMAL BIAS; SYMBOL ERROR PROBABILITY; UNEQUAL ENERGY SIGNALING;

FADING CHANNELS; OPTIMIZATION; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 33947580230     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05480     Document Type: Article

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