Novel expressions for the one and two dimensional Gaussian Q-functions

2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sofotasios, Paschalis C ^a   Freear, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM APPROXIMATIONS; GAUSSIAN Q-FUNCTION; GAUSSIANS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; Q-FUNCTIONS; SERIES REPRESENTATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78649554076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICWITS.2010.5611877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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