An optimal lognormal approximation to lognormal sum distributions

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 479-489

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Xie, Qiong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Shanghai Media ITCL   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation methods; Cochannel interference; Distribution functions; Fourier transforms; Lognormal distributions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LOGNORMAL APPROXIMATION; LOGNORMAL SUM DISTRIBUTIONS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 1942485934     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2004.823494     Document Type: Article

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