Mixture lognormal approximations to lognormal sum distributions

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 711-713

  Liu, Z ^a   Almhana, J ^a   Wang, Fang ^b   McGorman, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Lognormal sum distribution; Mixture lognormal

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

LOGNORMAL RANDOM VARIABLES; LOGNORMAL SUM DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE LOGNORMAL APPROXIMATIONS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548627491     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.070656     Document Type: Article

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