A unified MGF-based capacity analysis of diversity combiners over generalized fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 862-875

  Yilmaz, Ferkan ^a   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

correlated channel fading; diversity combining; equal gain combining; Ergodic capacity; gamma shadowed generalized Nakagami m fading; generalized Nakagami m fading; maximal ratio combining

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED CHANNELS; DIVERSITY COMBINING; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; ERGODIC CAPACITY; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); NAKAGAMI-M FADING;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 84858335982     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.020912.100766     Document Type: Article

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