On the monotonicity, log-concavity, and tight bounds of the generalized marcum and nuttall Q-Functions

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1166-1186

  Sun, Yin ^a   Baricz, Árpád ^b   Zhou, Shidong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Generalized Marcum Qfunction; Log concavity; Monotonicity; Nuttall Q function; Tight bounds

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; ERROR PERFORMANCE; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MARCUM Q-FUNCTION; MONOTONICITY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC INTERPRETATION; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; Q-FUNCTIONS; RELATIVE ERRORS; THREE PARAMETERS; TIGHT BOUND; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERRORS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949507230     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2039048     Document Type: Article

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