An accurate closed-form approximation of the average probability of error over a log-normal fading channel

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1495-1500

  Héliot, Fabien ^a,b   Ghavami, Mohammad ^a,c   Nakhai, Mohammad Reza ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approximation methods; Closed form expression; Communication channels; Error analysis; Lambert W function; Log normal distributions; Probability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; PACKET NETWORKS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AVERAGE PROBABILITY OF ERROR (APE); CONSTELLATION (CO); ERROR PERFORMANCES; LOG NORMAL FADING; SMALL-SCALE FADING; ULTRA WIDE-BAND (UWB) COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS (WIFI) COMMUNICATION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 47149098414     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.061019     Document Type: Article

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