New bounds for the Marcum Q-function

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3003-3008

  Corazza, Giovanni E ^a,b   Ferrari, Gianluigi ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marcum Q function; Modified Bessel function of the first kind; Upper and lower bounds

Indexed keywords

CODE ACQUISITION; DETECTION PROBABILITY; MARCUM Q-FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0036847122     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2002.804113     Document Type: Letter

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