Switching rates of dual selection diversity and dual switch-and-stay diversity

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1409-1413

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fading channels; Nakagami; Rayleigh; Rician; Selection combining; Switch and stay combining

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

DIVERSITY; DUAL SELECTION DIVERSITY; DUAL SWITCH; FADING CHANNELS; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI-M; RAYLEIGH; RICIAN; SELECTION COMBINING; SWITCH-AND-STAY COMBINING; SWITCHING RATES;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 52949126982     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.060448     Document Type: Article

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