Impact of imperfect channel estimation on the performance of amplify-and-forward relaying

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1468-1479

  Gedik, Berna ^b   Uysal, Murat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative diversity; Space time coding; Transmission technology

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; COHERENT RECEIVERS; COMPLEX FADING CHANNELS; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY; COOPERATIVE PROTOCOLS; DIVERSITY ORDERS; ERROR-RATE PERFORMANCE; FULL DIVERSITIES; IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DECODERS; MEAN-SQUARED ERRORS; PAIR WISE ERROR PROBABILITIES; PERFECT CHANNEL STATE INFORMATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; PHASE- LOCKED LOOPS; PILOT-SYMBOL-ASSISTED; RECEIVER ARCHITECTURES; SECOND ORDERS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPACE-TIME CODING; TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGY;

AMPLIFICATION; BLOCK CODES; ESTIMATION; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 62949186628     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.080252     Document Type: Article

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