Non-Gaussian noise models in signal processing for telecommunications: New methods and results for Class A and Class B noise models

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1129-1149

  Middleton, David ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE MODELS;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 0032683575     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.761256     Document Type: Article

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