Accurate error-rate calculations through the inversion of mixed characteristic functions

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 719-721

  Welburn, Lisa ^a   Cavers, James K ^a   Sowerby, Kevin W ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cauchy's residue theorem; Inverse Laplace transform (ILT); Vandermonde matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FADING (RADIO); INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INVERSE LAPLACE TRANSFORM; VANDERMONDE MATRIX;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0038715515     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.811379     Document Type: Letter

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