On the performance of amplify-and-forward cooperative systems with fixed gain relays

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1851-1856

  Farhadi, Golnaz ^a,b   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; Bit error rate; Cooperative systems; Fading channels; Fixed gain relays; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; OUTAGES; PHOTOELECTRIC RELAYS; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMPLIFY AND FORWARD (AF); AMPLIFY AND FORWARD (AF) RELAYING; BIT ERROR PROBABILITY (BEP); BIT ERRORS; BRANCH SYSTEM; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; DESIGN CRITERION; DIVERSITY GAINS; FIXED GAIN RELAYS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); MULTI HOPPING; MULTI-HOP TRANSMISSIONS; MULTIHOP WIRELESS TRANSMISSION; NON REGENERATIVE (NR); SINGLE-HOP;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 47149095613     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070688     Document Type: Article

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