Performance analysis of dual selection diversity in correlated Weibull fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1063-1067

  Sagias, Nikos C ^a   Karagiannidis, George K ^b   Zogas, Dimitris A ^c   Mathiopoulos, P Takis ^b   Tombras, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b IEEE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CORRELATED FADING; SELECTION COMBINING; WEIBULL FADING CHANNELS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 3543058754     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.831362     Document Type: Article

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