A closed-form solution for the distribution of the sum of Nakagami-m random phase vectors

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 828-830

  Karagiannidis, George K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coherent modulation; Gaussian Q function; Nakagami m fading channels; OFDM; Selective fading; Sum of random phase vectors

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

CLOSED-FORM SOLUTION; COHERENT MODULATION; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION (MGF); NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; SELECTIVE FADING;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 33845737566     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.060991     Document Type: Article

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