Outage performance of dual branch diversity techniques in broadband fixed wireless access networks

IET Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1648-1653

  Kourogiorgas, Charilaos I ^a   Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FADING (RADIO); RADIO COMMUNICATION; RAIN;

BROADBAND FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS; COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SELECTION COMBINING; SPATIAL CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84923055372     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2013.1176     Document Type: Article

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