Design, implementation, and characterization of a cooperative communications system

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2534-2544

  Murphy, Patrick ^a   Sabharwal, Ashutosh ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative communications; decode and forward relaying; distributed space time block coding; orthogonal frquency division multiplexing; performance analysis; physical layer; synchronization

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DECODE-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING; ORTHOGONAL FRQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL LAYERS;

COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; INFORMATION THEORY; NETWORK LAYERS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOPOLOGY; TRANSCEIVERS;

SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING (STBC);

EID: 79960359541     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2158461     Document Type: Article

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