Performance of distributed diversity systems with a single amplify-and-forward relay

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2603-2608

  Suraweera, Himal A ^a   Michalopoulos, Diomidis S ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward (AF) relaying; Error performance; Selection combining (SC); Switch and stay combining (SSC)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD (AF) RELAYING; DECODE-AND-FORWARD RELAY; DISTRIBUTED SELECTION; DIVERSITY SYSTEMS; ERROR PERFORMANCE; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SELECTION COMBINING (SC); SWITCH-AND-STAY COMBINING (SSC);

AMPLIFICATION; BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SOLAR CELLS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 66449130103     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.2007798     Document Type: Article

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