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TCOM
2010
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An Exact Performance Analysis of MRC / OSTBC over Generalized Fading Channels
—A unified analytical framework for evaluating the performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) and orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC) over generalized fading channels i...
George A. Ropokis, Athanasios A. Rontogiannis, P. ...
TCOM
2010
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Near-Capacity Cooperative Space-Time Coding Employing Irregular Design and Successive Relaying
— In this paper, we develop a capacity-approaching Cooperative Space-Time Coding (CSTC) scheme employing irregular design for a twin-relay aided network as an extension of our pr...
Lingkun Kong, Soon Xin Ng, Robert G. Maunder, Lajo...
TCOM
2010
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On the Relationship Between Belief Propagation Decoding and Joint Maximum Likelihood Detection
—Belief propagation, via a novel reinterpretation of the Bethe free energy’s pseudo-dual, is shown to be related to a novel relaxation of maximum likelihood detection via a con...
John MacLaren Walsh, Phillip A. Regalia
TCOM
2010
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On the condition number distribution of complex wishart matrices
Abstract—This paper investigates the distribution of the condition number of complex Wishart matrices. Two closely related measures are considered: the standard condition number ...
Michail Matthaiou, Matthew R. McKay, Peter J. Smit...
TCOM
2010
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Noise correlation in compact diversity receivers
—The impact of antenna mutual coupling on signal correlation in multi-antenna receivers has been studied in great detail. By contrast, there has been little work on how mutual co...
Carlo P. Domizioli, Brian L. Hughes, Kevin G. Gard...
TCOM
2010
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A Simple Recruitment Scheme of Multiple Nodes for Cooperative MAC
—Physical (PHY) layer cooperation in a wireless network allows neighboring nodes to share their communication resources in order to create a virtual antenna array by means of dis...
Francesco Verde, Thanasis Korakis, Elza Erkip, Ann...
TCOM
2010
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On further reduction of complexity in tree pruning based sphere search
Abstract—In this letter, we propose an extension of the probabilistic tree pruning sphere decoding (PTP-SD) algorithm that provides further improvement of the computational compl...
Byonghyo Shim, Insung Kang
TCOM
2010
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Blind carrier phase acquisition and tracking for 8-VSB signals
—A blind carrier phase derotator can be employed to correct and track carrier phase offset either before or after equalization in a blind adaptive receiver. This work proposes a ...
Jenq-Tay Yuan, Yong-Fu Huang
TCOM
2010
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Structure, property, and design of nonbinary regular cycle codes
—In this paper, we study nonbinary regular LDPC cycle codes whose parity check matrix H has fixed column weight
Jie Huang, Shengli Zhou, Peter Willett
TCOM
2010
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Design of irregular LDPC codes with optimized performance-complexity tradeoff
—The optimal performance-complexity tradeoff for error-correcting codes at rates strictly below the Shannon limit is a central question in coding theory. This paper proposes a nu...
Benjamin Smith, Masoud Ardakani, Wei Yu, Frank R. ...