Log-shifted gamma approximation to lognormal sum distributions

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 4 II, 2007, Pages 2121-2129

  Lam, Chong Lai Joshua ^a,b   Le Ngoc, Tho ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Airwide Solutions   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximation; Interference; Lognormal sum; Outage probability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; ITERATIVE MOMENT-MATCHING TECHNIQUES; LOG-SHIFTED GAMMA APPROXIMATION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 34547897682     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.897662     Document Type: Article

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