Diversity and coding gains of fixed-gain amplify-and-forward with partial relay selection in Nakagami-m fading

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 734-736

  Ding, Haiyang ^a,b   Ge, Jianhua ^a   Da Costa, Daniel Benevides ^c   Jiang, Zhuoqin ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI AN COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asymptotic analysis; coding gain; diversity gain; fixed gain relaying; partial relay selection

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; CODING GAINS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DIVERSITY GAIN; FADING PARAMETERS; FIXED-GAIN RELAYING; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; RELAY LINKS; RELAY SELECTION; RELAYING SYSTEMS; SIMULATION RESULT;

AMPLIFICATION; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955646515     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2010.08.100530     Document Type: Article

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