A tight lower bound to the outage probability of discrete-input block-fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4314-4322

  Nguyen, Khoa D ^a   Guillén i Fabregas, Albert ^a,b   Rasmussen, Lars K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Block fading channel; Diversity; Error probability; Outage probability; Rate diversity tradeoff; Signal to noise ratio (SNR) exponent

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY RECEPTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BLOCK-FADING CHANNELS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RATE-DIVERSITY TRADEOFF;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 36448932788     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2007.907520     Document Type: Article

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