Lognormal sum approximation with type IV pearson distribution

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 790-792

  Nie, Hong ^a   Chen, Shaohua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Skewness; Sum of lognormal random variables; Type IV Pearson distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

KURTOSIS; SKEWNESS; TYPE IV PEARSON DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 36849083034     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.070842     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice. Prentice Hall, Inc., NJ, 1996.
2. L. F. Fenton, "The sum of lognormal probability distributions in scatter transmission systems," IRE Trans. Commun. Syst., vol. CS-8, pp. 57-67, 1960.
3. S. Schwartz and Y. Yeh, "On the distribution function and moments of power sums with lognormal components," Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 61, pp. 1441-1462, 1982.
4. N. C. Beaulieu and Q. Xie, "An optimal lognormal approximation to lognormal sum distributions," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 53, pp. 479-489, 2004.
5. J. Wu, N. B. Mehta, and J. Zhang, "Flexible lognormal sum approximation method," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM '05, vol. 6, pp. 3413-3417, Nov. 2005.
6. L. Zhao and J. Ding, "Least squares approximations to lognormal sum distributions," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 56, pp. 991-997, 2007.
7. N. C. Beaulieu and F. Rajwani, "Highly accurate simple closed-form approximations to lognormal sum distributions and densities," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 8, pp. 709-711, 2004.
8. R. Kwan and C. Leung, "An accurate method for approximating probability distributions in wireless communications," in Proc. IEEE WCNC06, vol. 2, pp. 1114-1119, May 2006.