On the achievable diversity orders over non-severely faded lognormal channels

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 695-697

  Abou Rjeily, Chadi ^a   Bkassiny, Mario ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

diversity; Erlang distribution; lognormal fading; Lognormal sum distribution; performance analysis

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY; ERLANG DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL FADING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

BIT ERROR RATE; FADING (RADIO); RANDOM VARIABLES;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77955637306     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2010.08.100251     Document Type: Article

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