A closed form expression for the average SNR when combining an arbitrary number of diversity branches with non identical Rayleigh fading statistics

Ning Kong, Laurence B. Milstein. A closed form expression for the average SNR when combining an arbitrary number of diversity branches with non identical Rayleigh fading statistics. In 1999 IEEE International Conference on Communications: Global Convergence Through Communications, ICC 1999, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18-22, 1999. pages 1864-1868, IEEE, 1999. [doi]

@inproceedings{KongM99-1,
  title = {A closed form expression for the average SNR when combining an arbitrary number of diversity branches with non identical Rayleigh fading statistics},
  author = {Ning Kong and Laurence B. Milstein},
  year = {1999},
  doi = {10.1109/ICC.1999.765585},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.1999.765585},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/KongM99-1},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {1864-1868},
  booktitle = {1999 IEEE International Conference on Communications: Global Convergence Through Communications, ICC 1999, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18-22, 1999},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  isbn = {0-7803-5284-X},
}