Performance analysis of a power line communication system employing selection combining in correlated log-normal channels and impulsive noise

IET Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1072-1082

  Dubey, Ankit ^a   Mallik, Ranjan K ^a   Schober, Robert ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

AMOUNT OF CORRELATIONS; AVERAGE BIT-ERROR RATES; AVERAGE CHANNEL CAPACITIES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION; INFORMATION-BEARING SIGNALS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

IMPULSE NOISE;

EID: 84899654184     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2013.0299     Document Type: Article

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