Simple expressions for the SER of dual MRC in correlated Nakagami-q (Hoyt) fading

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 743-745

  Hemachandra, Kasun T ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated fading channels; maximal ratio combining; moment generating function; symbol error rate

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM; CORRELATED FADING CHANNELS; DECORRELATION TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; NAKAGAMI-Q FADING; NONCOHERENT MODULATION; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; SYMBOL ERROR RATES;

FADING (RADIO); FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77955642231     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2010.08.100773     Document Type: Article

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