Channel estimation for amplify-and-forward relaying: Cascaded against disintegrated estimators

IET Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1207-1216

  Amin, O ^a   Gedik, B ^a   Uysal, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD; CHANNEL ESTIMATOR; DIVERSITY GAIN; ESTIMATION METHODS; FULL DIVERSITY; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PILOT SYMBOL ASSISTED; QUANTISATION; RELAY CHANNELS; RELAY TERMINALS;

AMPLIFICATION; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPETITION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77954263710     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2009.0435     Document Type: Article

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