On the MGF and BER of linear diversity schemes in nakagami fading channels with arbitrary parameters

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Aalo, Valentine A ^a   Efthymoglou, George P ^b  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diversity combining; Lauricella hypergeometric function; Nakagami fading channel

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; AVERAGE BIT-ERROR RATES; COMBINING SCHEMES; DIVERSITY COMBINING; DIVERSITY SCHEMES; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; LAURICELLA HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTION; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI FADING CHANNEL; SELECTION COMBINING;

ANTENNAS; BIT ERROR RATE; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 70349687229     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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