On the performance analysis of digital communications over Generalized-K fading channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 353-355

  Bithas, Petros S ^a   Sagias, Nikos C ^a   Mathiopoulos, P Takis ^a   Karagiannidis, George K ^b   Rontogiannis, Athanasios A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Capacity; Fading and shadowing channels; Generalized K distribution; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS;

FADING CHANNELS; GENERALIZED-K DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED-K FADING CHANNELS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744473324     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1633320     Document Type: Article

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