Ergodic capacity analysis of amplify-and-forward MIMO dual-hop systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2204-2224

  Jin, Shi ^a   McKay, Matthew R ^b   Zhong, Caijun ^c   Wong, Kai Kit ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward (AF); Dual hop; Ergodic capacity; Lower bound; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Upper bound

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; ANALYTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; ARBITRARY NUMBER; ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CLOSED FORM; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; EIGEN-VALUE; ERGODIC CAPACITY; HIGH SNR; MIMO CHANNEL; MIMO RELAY; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; POWER GAINS; RANDOM MATRIX THEORY; RELAY CHANNELS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; UPPER BOUND;

AMPLIFICATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77951604986     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2010.2043765     Document Type: Article

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