Multi-tier cooperative broadcasting with hierarchical modulations

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3047-3057

  Wang, Tairan ^a,b   Cano, Alfonso ^a,c   Giannakis, Georgios B ^a,b   Ramos, Javier ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Broadcast channel; Diversity gain; Hierarchical modulation; Relaying protocol; User cooperation

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BROADCAST CHANNELS; DIVERSITY GAIN; HIERARCHICAL MODULATION; RELAYING PROTOCOL; USER COOPERATION;

BROADCASTING;

EID: 34548100912     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.051059     Document Type: Article

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