On the approximation of the generalized- distribution by a gamma distribution for modeling composite fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 706-713

  Al Ahmadi, Saad ^a   Yanikomeroglu, Halim ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composite fading; Distributed antenna systems; Gamma distribution; Generalized K distribution; Lower and upper tails; Moment matching; Network MIMO; Positive and negative moments; Radar and sonar

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FADING; DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; K DISTRIBUTION; MOMENT-MATCHING; NEGATIVE MOMENTS; NETWORK MIMO;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; FADING (RADIO); MOBILE ANTENNAS; MULTIPATH FADING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 76949096170     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.02.081266     Document Type: Article

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