A simple, accurate approximation to the sum of gamma-gamma variates and applications in MIMO free-space optical systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 839-841

  Peppas, Kostas P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

alpha mu; distribution; Free space optics (FSO); gammagamma (G G) distribution; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-MU DISTRIBUTION; CLOSED FORM APPROXIMATIONS; FREE SPACE OPTICS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; GAMMAGAMMA (G-G) DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 79958028921     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2135342     Document Type: Article

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