On appropriate models for characterizing hyper-rayleigh fading

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5202-5207

  Frolik, Jeff ^a  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Fading channels; Multipath channels; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; HYBRID SENSORS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

APPROPRIATE MODELS; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCES; EMPIRICAL DATUMS; FADING STATISTICS; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; PROPAGATION MODELS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH REGIMES; WAVE MODELS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 58149125166     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.070968     Document Type: Article

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