Method-of-moments parameter estimation for compound fading processes

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-172

  Bouchereau, Frantz ^a   Brady, Bardy ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

And method of moments; Compound fading; Gamma lognormal processes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPOUND FADING; GAMMA-LOGNORMAL PROCESSES; NOISY CHANNEL; NON-LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES ALGORITHMS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 40749106987     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.050437     Document Type: Article

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