Performance of multi-hop cooperative networks subject to timing synchronization errors

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 655-666

  Hussain, Muddassar ^a   Hassan, Syed Ali ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

BEP; cooperative transmissions; CSI; decodeand forward; timing synchronization

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; ERROR STATISTICS; FADING CHANNELS; MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BEP; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; CSI; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION;

ERRORS;

EID: 84925114942     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2388751     Document Type: Article

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