Two hop amplify-and-forward transmission in mixed Rayleigh and Rician fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 227-229

  Suraweera, Himal A ^a   Louie, Raymond H Y ^b   Li, Yonghui ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^c   Vucetic, Branka ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; Relay; Rician fading

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; AVERAGE BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LOWER BOUNDS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH AND RICIAN FADING CHANNELS; RELAY; RELAY SYSTEM; RICIAN FADING; RICIAN-FACTOR;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; CONTROL THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 65649144258     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2009.081943     Document Type: Article

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