AbstractsCommunication

Channel estimation for Amplify and Forward Channels

by Gedik Berna




Institution: University of Waterloo
Department:
Year: 2008
Keywords: wireless communications
Record ID: 1828673
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3688


Abstract

Cooperative diversity has been proposed as a powerful means to enhance the performance of high-rate communications over wireless fading channels. It realizes spatial diversity advantages in a distributed manner where two or more nodes share their antennas to mimic a virtual antenna array.