Multi-branch decode-and-forward cooperative diversity networks performance analysis over Nakagami-m fading channels

IET Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 872-878

  Ikki, S S ^a   Ahmed, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; CHANNEL PARAMETER; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CO-OPERATIVE DIVERSITY; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY NETWORKS; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; DESTINATION NODES; DIVERSITY ORDER; ERROR PROBABILITIES; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINING; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SIGNAL TO NOISE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 80053271195     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2010.0214     Document Type: Article

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