An accurate closed-form approximation of the ergodic capacity over log-normal fading channels

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Héliot, Fabien ^a   Chut, Xiaoli ^b   Hoshyar, Reza ^a   Tafazolli, Rahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM APPROXIMATIONS; ERGODIC CAPACITY; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL FADING; SMALL-SCALE FADING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 69949126824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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