Performance of wireless multihop communications systems with cooperative diversity over fading channels

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 559-565

  Tsiftsis, Theodoros A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Average error probability; Cooperative diversity; Gamma RVs; Moment generating function; Multihop networks; Nakagami m fading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING CHANNELS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AVERAGE ERROR PROBABILITY; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY; MOMENT-GENERATING FUNCTION; MULTIHOP NETWORKS; NAKAGAMI-M FADING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 43949092804     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.909     Document Type: Article

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