Performance analysis of generalized selection combining for decode-and-forward cooperative-diversity networks

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ikki, Salama S ^a   Ahmed, Mohamed H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative diversity; Error performance; Generalized selection combining; Outage probability; Rayleigh fading

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE DIVERSITY; ERROR PERFORMANCE; GENERALIZED SELECTION COMBINING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH;

AD HOC NETWORKS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAYLEIGH FADING;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 78649440396     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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