An approximate analytical framework for performance analysis of equal gain combining technique over independent Nakagami, Rician and Weibull fading channels

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1399-1408

  Samimi, Hossein ^a   Azmi, Paeiz ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Convergent infinite series; Equal gain combining (EGC); Nakagami fading; Probability of error; Rician fading; Weibull fading

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERRORS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CONVERGENT INFINITE SERIES; EQUAL GAIN COMBINER (EGC); NAKAGAMI FADINGS; RICIAN FADINGS; TABULATED SOLUTIONS; WEIBULL FADINGS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 36448990450     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-007-9314-z     Document Type: Article

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