Spectrally efficient incremental relaying for coverage expansion in cellular networks with heterogeneous path loss conditions

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 811-829

  De Oliveira Brante, Glauber Gomes ^a   Pellenz, Marcelo Eduardo ^b   Souza, Richard Demo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cooperative communications; Coverage expansion; Incremental relaying; Relay channel

Indexed keywords

BASE STATION ANTENNAS; CELLULAR NETWORK; COOPERATIVE SCHEMES; COVERAGE AREA; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; FIXED RELAYS; HETEROGENEOUS CONDITIONS; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; INCREMENTAL RELAYING; NON-COOPERATIVE; PATH LOSS; PATH LOSS MODELS; RELAY CHANNELS; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84862509743     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-011-0221-y     Document Type: Article

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