Diversity order for amplify-and-forward dual-hop systems with fixed-gain relay under Nakagami fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-98

  Xu, Feng ^a,b,c   Lau, Francis C M ^b   Yue, Dian Wu ^a,d  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; Diversity order; Fixed gain relay; Nakagami fading; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; DIVERSITY ORDER; FIXED-GAIN RELAYS; NAKAGAMI FADING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY;

AMPLIFICATION; FADING (RADIO); OUTAGES;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 74549205176     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.01.090510     Document Type: Article

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