On the statistical properties of equal gain combining over mobile-to-mobile fading channels in cooperative networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Talha, Batool ^a   Primak, Serguei ^b   Pätzold, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AVERAGE DURATION OF FADES; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; CLOSED FORM; COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GAMMA-DISTRIBUTED; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; MOBILE FADING CHANNELS; MOBILE RELAYS; MOBILE STATION; NARROW BANDS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT PROPAGATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RAYLEIGH; RECEIVED SIGNALS; RELAY NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL QUANTITY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FADING (RADIO); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77955343577     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2010.5501898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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