Selection relaying with transmit beamforming: A comparison of fixed and variable gain relaying

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1720-1730

  Yeoh, Phee Lep ^a   Elkashlan, Maged ^b   Collings, Iain B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beamforming; diversity methods; fading channels; wireless relays

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD PROTOCOL; ARRAY GAIN; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; CELLULAR NETWORK; CHANNEL IMPAIRMENT; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DIVERSITY METHOD; DIVERSITY ORDER; GENERALIZED MOMENTS; HIGHER ORDER; KEY PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; LARGE N; MOBILE STATION; PARTIAL CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; RELAY STATIONS; SELECTION RELAYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SYMBOL ERROR RATES; TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; VARIABLE GAIN; WIRELESS RELAYS;

BEAMFORMING; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; FADING CHANNELS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 79959572649     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.042111.100055     Document Type: Article

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