Does fast adaptive modulation always outperform slow adaptive modulation?

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1504-1513

  Toni, Laura ^a,b   Conti, Andrea ^c,d  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b WiLab ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive modulation; channel estimation; fading channels; multichannel reception; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR OUTAGES; CHANNEL STATE; COHERENCE TIME; ENERGY CONSTRAINT; FEEDBACK RATES; LINK ADAPTATION; LOWER COMPLEXITY; MULTICHANNEL RECEPTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SLOW ADAPTIVE; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DELTA MODULATION; ESTIMATION; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE MODULATION;

EID: 79957633059     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.020111.100643     Document Type: Article

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