Improved exponential bounds and approximation for the Q-function with application to average error probability computation

Conference Record / IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1399-1402

  Chiani, Marco ^a   Dardari, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO);

ERROR PROBABILITY COMPUTATION;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0036967574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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