Further results on the approximation of log-normal power sum via pearson type IV distribution: A general formula for log-moments computation

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 893-898

  Di Renzo, Marco ^a   Graziosi, Fabio ^b   Santucci, Fortunato ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Approximating methods; Co channel interference; Laplace transform; Log moments; Log normal power sum; Mellin transform; Multipath channels; Pearson system; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATING METHODS; LOG-MOMENTS; LOG-NORMAL POWER SUM; MELLIN TRANSFORM; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; PEARSON SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FRUITS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 65649116970     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.04.070133     Document Type: Article

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