Diversity gains in two-ray fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 968-977

  Bakir, Lu'Ay ^a   Frolik, Jeff ^a  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication channels; Diversity methods; Fading channels; Multipath channels; Rayleigh channels; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING CHANNELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BIT-ERROR RATES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; DIVERSITY GAINS; DIVERSITY METHODS; EMPIRICAL DATUM; HYPER-RAYLEIGH; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH CHANNELS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SMALL-SCALE FADING; TWO-RAY MODELS; WIRELESS SENSORS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 61349174081     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080030     Document Type: Article

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