The BER optimal linear rake receiver for signal detection in symmetric alpha-stable noise

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3585-3588

  Niranjayan, S ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA STABLE; DIVERSITY COMBINERS; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINER; RAKE RECEIVER;

ANTENNAS; BIT ERROR RATE; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 72949098375     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.12.0701392     Document Type: Article

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