Gaussian class multivariate Weibull distributions: Theory and applications in fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3608-3619

  Sagias, Nikos C ^a,b   Karagiannidis, George K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Correlated fading; Diversity; Equal gain combining (EGC); Maximal ratio combining (MRC); Multichannel reception; Multivariate analysis; Outage probability; Selection combining (SC); Weibull fading

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CORRELATED FADING; EQUAL GAIN COMBINING (EGC); MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); MULTICHANNEL RECEPTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SELECTION COMBINING (SC); WEIBULL FADING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 26844544457     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2005.855598     Document Type: Article

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