On the monotonicity of the generalized marcum and nuttall Q-functions

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3701-3710

  Kapinas, Vasilios M ^a   Mihos, Sotirios K ^a   Karagiannidis, George K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Closed form expressions; Generalized Marcum Q function; Lower and upper bounds; Monotonicity; Normalized Nuttall Q function; Standard Nuttall Q function

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; GENERALIZED MARCUM Q-FUNCTION; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MONOTONICITY; NORMALIZED NUTTALL Q-FUNCTION;

CONTROL THEORY; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; INFORMATION THEORY;

STANDARDS;

EID: 68249160815     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2023710     Document Type: Article

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