A comprehensive framework for performance analysis of cooperative multi-hop wireless systems over log-normal fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 531-544

  Di Renzo, Marco ^a   Graziosi, Fabio ^b   Santucci, Fortunato ^b  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna sharing; Cooperative systems; Log normal fading; Multi hop; Spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING CHANNELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAYLEIGH FADING;

ANTENNA SHARING; CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS; LOG-NORMAL FADING; MULTIHOP; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 76949089349     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.02.080273     Document Type: Article

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