Accurate outage approximation of MRC receivers in arbitrarily fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 789-792

  Jabi, Mohammed ^a   Szczecinski, Leszek ^a   Benjillali, Mustapha ^b  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Morocco   (Morocco)

Author keywords

cooperative communications; diversity combining; HARQ; Hoyt fading; Nakagami m fading; Outage probability; Rice fading; saddlepoint approximation

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY COMBINING; HARQ; HOYT FADING; NAKAGAMI-M FADING; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; RICE FADING; SADDLE-POINT APPROXIMATION;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 84862507845     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.040912.120236     Document Type: Article

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