Performance analysis of cooperative diversity using Equal Gain Combining (EGC) technique over rayleigh fading channels

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5336-5341

  Ikki, Salama ^b   Ahmed, Mohamed H ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative diversity; Error performance; Outage probabilities; Rayleigh fading; Single relay networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EQUAL GAIN COMBINING (EGC); MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION (MGF); PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 38549091656     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2007.883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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