Second-order statistics of a maximum ratio combiner with unbalanced and unequally distributed Nakagami branches

IET Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1829-1835

  Ivanis, P ^a   Blagojevic, V ^a   Drajic, D ^a   Vucetic, B ^b  

^a School of Electrical Engineering   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ARBITRARY NUMBER; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; FADING DURATION; FADING PARAMETERS; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINERS; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI FADING CHANNEL; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TIME DERIVATIVE;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 80053249329     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2010.0493     Document Type: Article

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