Performance analysis of the dual-hop asymmetric fading channel

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2783-2788

  Suraweera, Himal ^a   Karagiannidis, George K ^b   Smith, Peter J ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; Average bit error probability; Outage probability; Rayleigh fading; Rician fading; Wireless relays

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; AVERAGE BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RICIAN FADING; WIRELESS RELAYS;

AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FADING CHANNELS; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 67651171484     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080420     Document Type: Article

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