An accurate approximation to the average error probability of cooperative diversity in nakagami-m fading

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2707-2711

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Chen, Yunfei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative diversity; fading channels; Nakagami; symbol error rate

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERROR PROBABILITY; AVERAGE SYMBOL ERROR RATES; CO-OPERATIVE DIVERSITY; LOWER BOUNDS; MODERATE VALUE; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SYMBOL ERROR RATES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FADING (RADIO); PROBABILITY; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77956925424     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.071410.090974     Document Type: Article

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