Near-Capacity Wireless System Design Principles

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1806-1833

  Nguyen, Hung Viet ^a   Xu, Chao ^b   Ng, Soon Xin ^b   Hanzo, Lajos ^b  

^a POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

channel capacity; coherent noncoherent detection; cooperative communications; EXIT charts; near capacity channel codes; near capacity distributed coding; Near capacity system; outage capacity

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL CODING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONCATENATED CODES; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; MIMO SYSTEMS;

COHERENT AND NON-COHERENT DETECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED CODING; EXIT-CHARTS; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER CHARTS; MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT SYSTEM; NEAR-CAPACITY SYSTEM; OUTAGE CAPACITY; WIRELESS SYSTEM DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 84969945002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2464300     Document Type: Article

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