Performance of N-branch receive diversity combining in correlated lognormal channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 489-491

  Skraparlis, Dimitrios ^a   Sakarellos, Vasileios K ^a   Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a   Kanellopoulos, John D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diversity reception; Equal gain combining (EGC); Fading channels; Fading correlation; Lognormal fading; Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Outage probability; Selection combining (SC)

Indexed keywords

EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING (EGC); FADING CORRELATION; LOGNORMAL FADING; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING (MRC); OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SELECTION COMBINING (SC);

ANTENNAS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH FADING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 68349158671     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2009.090466     Document Type: Article

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