Antenna combining for multi-antenna multi-relay channels

European Transactions on Telecommunications

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 617-626

  Fan, Yijia ^a   Adinoyi, Abdulkareem ^b   Thompson, John S ^a   Yanikomeroglu, Halim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CHANNEL GAIN; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINING (MRC); SINGLE RELAY CHANNELS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 35348857424     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.1231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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