New results for the multivariate Nakagami-m fading model with arbitrary correlation matrix and applications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 245-255

  Alexandropoulos, George C ^a,b   Sagias, Nikos C ^b,c   Lazarakis, Fotis I ^b   Berberidis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Correlated fading; Correlation models; Diversity; Householder matrix; Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Multichannel receivers; Multivariate analysis; Nakagami m fading; Outage probability; Selection combining (SC)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OUTAGES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RAYLEIGH FADING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BIT ERROR RATE (BER); CORRELATED FADING; CORRELATION MODELS; DIVERSITY; HOUSEHOLDER MATRIX; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING (MRC); MULTICHANNEL RECEIVERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SELECTION COMBINING (SC);

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 61349130810     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2009.070521     Document Type: Article

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