ML-based channel estimations for non-regenerative relay networks with multiple transmit and receive antennas

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1428-1439

  Jing, Yindi ^a   Yu, Xinwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

channel estimation; channel training; maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; mean square error (MSE); Relay network

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MATRICES; CHANNEL VECTORS; ML ESTIMATION; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE ANTENNAS; NON-REGENERATIVE RELAYS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RELAY NETWORK; SINGULAR VALUES; SINGULAR VECTORS; TIME DURATION;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TRANSMITTERS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84865508083     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120912     Document Type: Article

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