A novel distributed antenna selection scheme for fixed-gain amplify-and-forward relaying systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2836-2842

  Ding, Haiyang ^a,b   Ge, Jianhua ^a   Da Costa, Daniel B ^b   Tsiftsis, Theodoros ^c  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antenna selection (AS) schemes; cooperative diversity; fixed gain relays; outage probability

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD RELAYING; ANTENNA SELECTION; CHANNEL INFORMATION; CO-OPERATIVE DIVERSITY; CONSTANT DELAYS; DECISION FEEDBACK; DISTRIBUTED ANTENNAS; FIXED-GAIN RELAYS; FULL DIVERSITY ORDER; HALF-DUPLEX RELAY; MULTI-ANTENNA; OUTAGE ANALYSIS; OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; TRANSMIT ANTENNA; TRANSMIT ANTENNA SELECTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84863940285     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2197872     Document Type: Article

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