A statistical basis for lognormal shadowing effects in multipath fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 494-502

  Coulson, Alan J ^a   Williamson, Allan G ^a   Vaughan, Rodney G ^a  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Lognormal distribution; Shadow fading

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSMITTERS;

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPATH FADING CHANNELS; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 0032045550     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.664305     Document Type: Article

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