Estimators using noisy channel samples for fading distribution parameters

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1274-1277

  Chen, Yunfei ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estimation; Fading distribution; Maximum likelihood (ML); Moment method; Noise

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FADING DISTRIBUTION; NOISELESS CHANNELS; NOISY CHANNELS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 24644507833     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.852816     Document Type: Article

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