Accurate simple closed-form approximations to Rayleigh sum distributions and densities

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-111

  Hu, Jeremiah ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximation methods; Rayleigh distribution; Rayleigh sum distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; RAYLEIGH SUM DISTRIBUTION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 14044252810     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.02003     Document Type: Article

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