Combining for cooperative WLANs - A reality check based on prototype measurements

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Valentin, Stefan ^a   Woldegebreal, Dereje H ^a   Volkhausen, Tobias ^a   Karl, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE RELAYING; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINING; MODULATION SCHEMES; MULTIPLE-PATH; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PROTOTYPE MEASUREMENTS; SELECTION COMBINING; THEORETICAL RESULT;

FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70449355068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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