The α-κ-μ Extreme distribution: Characterizing non-linear severe fading conditions

Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, ATNAC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sofotasios, Paschalis C ^a   Freear, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

; enclosed propagation environments; Extreme Distribution; Fading Channels; Non linear Fading; Probability; Severe Fading Conditions

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC REPRESENTATIONS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; ENCLOSED PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENTS; EXTREME DISTRIBUTION; FADING CONDITIONS; FADING MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MOBILE RADIOS; NON-LINEAR FADING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FADING CHANNELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 84255163387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ATNAC.2011.6096660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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