Cooperative body-area-communications: First and second-order statistics with decode-and-forward

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 689-693

  Smith, David B ^a   Miniutti, Dino ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE FADE DURATION; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; DECODE-AND-FORWARD PROTOCOLS; EMPIRICAL DATA; MAXIMUM-RATIO COMBINING; ON-BODY; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RELAY PLACEMENTS; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SELECTION COMBINING; SENSOR LOCATION; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84864338067     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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