A unified framework for the statistical characterization of the SNR of amplify-and-forward multihop channels

ICT 2010: 2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 324-330

  Yilmaz, Ferkan ^a   Kucur, Ǒguz ^b   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amplify and forward multihop relay channels; Cumulative distribution function; Harmonic mean; Meijer's G of Fox's H function; Moments generating function; Probability density function; Statistical moments

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; H FUNCTION; HARMONIC MEAN; MULTI-HOP RELAY; STATISTICAL MOMENTS;

AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OUTAGES; RANDOM VARIABLES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 77954547446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTEL.2010.5478760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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