Cooperative diversity for intervehicular communication: Performance analysis and optimization

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3301-3310

  Ilhan, Haci ^a   Uysal, Murat ^b   Altunbaş, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative diversity; Fading channels; Intervehicular communication; Relay assisted transmission

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; BASE STATION ANTENNAS; CHANNEL MODEL; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY; COOPERATIVE SCHEMES; INTERVEHICULAR COMMUNICATION; MOBILE STATION; MOBILE TERMINAL; NAKAGAMI FADING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; POWER ALLOCATIONS; RAYLEIGH-FADING CHANNEL; RELAY LOCATION; RELAY-ASSISTED TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RAYLEIGH FADING; ROADS AND STREETS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 69549122436     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2014685     Document Type: Article

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