Cooperative dual-hop relaying systems with beamforming over nakagami-m fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3950-3954

  Da Costa, Daniel Benevides ^a   Aissa, Sonia ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Dual hop transmissions; Nakagami m fading; Performance analysis; Semi blind relays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DESTINATION NODES; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; FADING PARAMETERS; GENERALIZED MOMENTS; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POWER IMBALANCE; RELAYING SYSTEMS; SEMI-BLIND; SEMI-BLIND RELAYS; SINGLE ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); FUNCTION EVALUATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 73149094320     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.081353     Document Type: Article

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