On the distribution of the sum of gamma-gamma variates and applications in RF and optical wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1298-1308

  Chatzidiamantis, Nestor D ^a   Karagiannidis, George K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

atmospheric turbulence; cascade fading; diversity reception; fading channels; Gamma Gamma ( ) distribution; optical wireless; performance analysis; shadowing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TRACTABILITY; CASCADE FADING; CHANNEL MODEL; CLOSED FORM APPROXIMATIONS; COMPOSITE FADING; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RF WIRELESS; RF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; SHADOWING; SINGLE INPUT SINGLE OUTPUT; WEIGHTED SUM; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); MULTIPATH FADING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 79956265147     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.020811.090205     Document Type: Article

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