A low-complexity relay selection scheme based on switch-and-examine diversity combining for af relay systems

IET Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 848-859

  Salhab, Anas M ^a   Zummo, Salam A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC RELAYING; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84881359522     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2012.0659     Document Type: Article

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