A simplified expression for the probability of error for binary multichannel communications

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-35

  O'Driscoll, Cillian ^a,b   Murphy, Colin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital communication; Fading channels; Marcum Q function

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRELLIS CODES;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION; MARCUM Q-FUNCTION; MULTI-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROBABILITY OF ERRORS; SIMPLIFIED EXPRESSIONS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 60149088811     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.0901.060131     Document Type: Article

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