Channel training design in amplify-and-forward MIMO relay networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3380-3391

  Sun, Sun ^a   Jing, Yindi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel training; cooperative diversity; distributed space time coding; LMMSE estimation; MIMO relay networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL TRAINING; CO-OPERATIVE DIVERSITY; DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME CODING; LMMSE ESTIMATION; MIMO RELAY NETWORKS;

DESIGN; ESTIMATION; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

EID: 80855130784     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.080311.102004     Document Type: Article

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