Exact symbol error probability of general order rectangular QAM with MRC diversity reception over Nakagami-m fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 958-960

  Lei, Xianfu ^a   Fan, Pingzhi ^a   Hao, Li ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nakagami m fading; Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); Symbol error probability (SEP)

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ERRORS; PROBABILITY; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 38149132272     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.070831     Document Type: Article

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