Distribution functions of selection combiner output in equally correlated Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami-m fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1948-1956

  Chen, Yunxia ^a,b   Tellambura, Chintha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative distribution function (cdf); Diversity; Equally correlated fading channel; Outage probability; Selection combining (SC)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); EQUALLY CORRELATED FADING CHANNEL; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SELECTION COMBINING (SC);

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 9444236831     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.836596     Document Type: Article

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