DocumentCode
3557834
Title
Comment on "Outage Probability Analysis of a MIMO Relay Channel with Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes"
Author
Lei, Xianfu ; Fan, Pingzhi
Author_Institution
Inst. of Mobile Commun., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, China
Volume
12
Issue
10
fYear
2008
fDate
10/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
720
Lastpage
721
Abstract
We point out that a simpler expression could be derived for the outage probability considered by Chalise and Vandendorpe (2008). As a result, the computation of confluent hypergeometric function of two variables is not needed and the required computational effort is significantly reduced.
Keywords
MIMO communication; block codes; computational complexity; orthogonal codes; probability; space-time codes; Chalise; MIMO relay channel; Vandendorpe; hypergeometric function; orthogonal space-time block codes; outage probability analysis; Block codes; Equations; Fading; MIMO; Mobile communication; Packaging; Probability; Relays; Research and development; Space time codes; Outage probability; confluent hypergeometric function; orthogonal space-time block codes; relay channel;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Location
10/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
ISSN
1089-7798
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080694
Filename
4640931
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