Novel receivers for AF relaying with distributed STBC using cascaded and disintegrated channel estimation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1370-1379

  Khan, Fahd Ahmed ^a   Chen, Yunfei ^b   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

amplify and forward relaying; channel estimation; Coherent receivers; decision based receivers; pilot symbol aided detection

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; COHERENT RECEIVERS; EUCLIDEAN METRICS; IMPERFECT CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PILOT SIGNALS; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODED; SYMBOL ERROR RATES;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FADING CHANNELS; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING (STBC);

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84862806802     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.021412.102166     Document Type: Article

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