Buffers improve the performance of relay selection

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ikhlef, Aissa ^a   Michalopoulos, Diomidis S ^a   Schober, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BUFFER SIZES; CODING GAINS; DIVERSITY GAIN; FINITE BUFFER; HYBRID RELAYS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE GAIN; RELAY SELECTION;

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EID: 84857204606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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