Fade statistics in nakagami-lognormal channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1769-1772

  Tjhung, Tjeng T ^a   Chai, Chin C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Average level crossing rate; Average time fade duration; Nakagami lognormal channels

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LEVEL CROSSING RATE (LCR); AVERAGE TIME FADE DURATION (AFD); NAKAGAMI-LOGNORMAL (NLN) CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033280109     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.809692     Document Type: Article

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