SER analysis and PDF derivation for multi-hop amplify-and-forward relay systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2413-2424

  Conne, Chris ^a   Ju, Minchul ^a   Yi, Zhihang ^a   Song, Hyoung Kyu ^b   Kim, Il Min ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward; cooperative diversity networks; multi hop; symbol error rate

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY NETWORKS; CUMULATIVE DENSITY FUNCTIONS; MODULATION SCHEMES; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; MULTI-HOP RELAY; MULTIHOP; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RELAY SYSTEM; SIMULATION RESULT; SYMBOL ERROR RATES;

AMPLIFICATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIO LINKS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 77956229670     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.062510.080615     Document Type: Article

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