Generic ergodic capacity bounds for fixed-gain AF dual-hop relaying systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3814-3824

  Zhong, Caijun ^a   Matthaiou, Michail ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^c   Ratnarajah, Tharmalingam ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward (AF) relaying; dual hop transmission; ergodic capacity; fading channels

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CAPACITY BOUND; DUAL-HOP TRANSMISSION; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; ERGODIC CAPACITY; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; LOWER BOUNDS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NAKAGAMI-M; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RELAYING SYSTEMS; RICIAN FADING CHANNEL; UPPER BOUND; WEIBULL;

FADING (RADIO); INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 80054794138     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2167362     Document Type: Article

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