Exact closed-form expressions for the distribution, the level-crossing rate, and the average duration of fades of the capacity of OSTBC-MIMO channels

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1011-1016

  Hogstad, Bjørn Olav ^a,b   Pätzold, Matthias ^a   Youssef, Neji ^c   Kontorovitch, Valeri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Average duration of fades (ADF); Channel capacity; Cumulative distribution function (CDF); Level crossing rate (LCR); Orthogonal space time block code (OSTBC) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; Probability density function (PDF); Rayleigh fading channels

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); DECODING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FADING CHANNELS; MIM DEVICES; MIMO SYSTEMS; MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAYLEIGH FADING; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AVERAGE DURATION OF FADES (ADF); CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); LEVEL-CROSSING RATE (LCR); ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE (OSTBC)-MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 61449103600     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.927038     Document Type: Article

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