Sum of Weibull variates and performance of diversity systems

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Connecting the World Wirelessly, IWCMC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 247-252

  Yilmaz, Ferkan ^a   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Cumulative distribution function; Outage probability; Probability density function; Sum of random variables; Symbol error rate; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIALS; RANDOM VARIABLES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DIVERSITY SYSTEMS; LAGUERRE'S POLYNOMIALS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE; SUMS OF RANDOM VARIABLES; SYMBOL ERROR RATES; WEIBULL; WEIBULL RANDOMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 70450242839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1582379.1582434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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