Optimal weighted partial decision combining for fading channel diversity

A diversity combining scheme is examined that utilizes a demodulator's hard decisions in conjunction with knowledge of each decision's reliability. A maximum-likelihood bit decision is made, based on these partial decisions from the demodulator and on measurements of the state of the fadi...

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Main Author: Kot, Alan Douglas
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26710