Conditions and performance of ideal RAKE reception for ultra-wideband signals in lognormal fading channels

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 193-200

  Zhang, J ^a,b   Kennedy, Rod A ^a,b   Abhayapala, Thushara ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lognormal distribution; RAKE receiver; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LOGNORMAL FADING CHANNELS; RAKE RECEIVERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 3543062990     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:IJWI.0000022050.22706.c4     Document Type: Article

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