The second order statistics of maximal ratio combining with unbalanced branches

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 508-510

  Ivanis, Predrag ^a   Drajic, Dusan ^a   Vucetic, Branka ^b  

^a School of Electrical Engineering   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation function; Level crossing rate; Maximum ratio combining; Rayleigh fading; Unbalanced branches

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ARBITRARY NUMBERS; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; LEVEL CROSSING RATE; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINING; NONISOTROPIC SCATTERING; OF MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH FADING; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS; UNBALANCED BRANCHES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 49049085747     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080376     Document Type: Article

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