Differential modulation with threshold-based decision combining for cooperative communications

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 7 II, 2007, Pages 3905-3923

  Himsoon, Thanongsak ^a,b   Siriwongpairat, W Pam ^a   Su, Weifeng ^c   Liu, K J Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Meteor Communications Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Cooperative diversity; Decode and forward protocol; Differential modulation; Performance analysis; Virtual multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RADIO RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY; DECODE-AND-FORWARD PROTOCOL; DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 34347387954     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.894268     Document Type: Article

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