On the performance of non-coherent transmission schemes with equal-gain combining in generalized Κ-fading

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1337-1349

  Zhu, Cindy ^a   Mietzner, Jan ^a   Schober, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

fading; Cascade fading; Diversity reception; Fading channels; Non coherent transmission; Performance analysis; Shadowing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ASYMPTOTIC DIVERSITY ORDER; BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COHERENT TRANSMISSION; CORRELATED FADING; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; DIVERSITY ORDER; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; FADING MODELS; FADING PARAMETERS; M-ARY MODULATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-COHERENT; SHIFT KEYING; TWO PARAMETER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77951281211     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.04.090172     Document Type: Article

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