On efficacy of Rayleigh-inverse Gaussian distribution over K-distribution for wireless fading channels

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Karmeshu, ^a   Agrawal, Rajeev ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Kumaon Engineering College Dwarahat   (India)

Author keywords

Fading; K distribution; KL measure; Performance modeling; Radio channel; Rayleigh inverse Gaussian; Rayleigh lognormal; Shadowing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

K-DISTRIBUTION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; RADIO CHANNELS; RAYLEIGH-INVERSE GAUSSIAN; SHADOWING;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 33846379946     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.295     Document Type: Article

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