Level crossing rates and average fade durations for multibranch diversity receivers operating on κ-μ fading channels

Proceedings of 4th IEEE Internatilonal Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2007, ISWCS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 451-455

  Da Costa, Daniel Benevides ^a   Yacoub, Michel Daoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AVERAGE FADE DURATION (AFD); DIVERSITY RECEIVERS; DIVERSITY SYSTEMS; GENERAL (CO); INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LEVEL CROSSING RATE (LCR); LEVEL CROSSING RATES (LCR); MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; FADING (RADIO); GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 84890856582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWCS.2007.4392380     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. M. Nakagami, "The m-distribution - A general formula of intensity distribution of rapid fading," in Statistical Methods in Radio Wave Propagation, W. C. Hoffman, Ed. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon, 1960.
2. S. Stein, "Fading channel issues in system engineering," IEEE Journal Selected Areas in Commun., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 68-69, Feb. 1987.
3. M. D. Yacoub, "The κ-μ distribution: A general fading distribution," in IEEE Fall Veh. Technol. Conf., Oct. 2001.
4. _, "The κ-μ distribution and the η-μ distribution," IEEE Ant. and Prop. Magazine, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 68-81, Feb. 2007.
5. J. C. S. Santos Filho and M. D. Yacoub, "Highly accurate κ-μ approximation to sum of M independent non-identical Ricean variates," Electron. Lett., vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 338-339, Mar. 2005.
6. W. C. Jakes, Microwave Mobile Communications. New York: Wiley, 1974.
7. D. G. Brennan, "Linear diversity combining techniques," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 331-356, Feb. 2003.
8. M. D. Yacoub, C. R. C. M. da Silva, and J. E. V. Bautista, "Second-order statistics for diversity-combining techniques in Nakagami-fading channels," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 1464-1470, Nov. 2001.
9. C.-D. Iskander and P. T. Mathiopoulus, "Analytical level crossing rates and average fade durations for diversity techniques in Nakagami fading channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 1301-1309, Aug. 2002.
10. N. C. Sagias, D. A. Zogas, G. K. Karagiannidis, and G. S. Tombras, "Channel capacity and second-order statistics in Weibull fading," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 377-379, Jun. 2004.
11. G. Fraidenraich, J. C. S. Santos Filho, and M. D. Yacoub, "Second-order statistics of maximal-ratio and equal-gain combining in Hoyt fading," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 2005.
12. G. Fraidenraich, M. D. Yacoub, and J. C. S. Santos Filho, "Second-order statistics of maximal-ratio and equal-gain combining in Weibull fading," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 499-501, Jun. 2005.
13. N. C. Beaulieu and X. Dong, "Level crossing rate and average fade duration of MRC and EGC diversity in Ricean fading," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 722-726, May 2005.
14. M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. New York: Dover, 1972.
15. J. I. Marcum, "A statiscal theory of target detection by pulsed radar," IRE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 29, pp. 59-267, Nov. 1960.
16. S. O. Rice, "Mathematical analysis of random noise," Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 23, pp. 282-332, Jul. 1944.
17. S. O. Rice, "Statistical properties of a sine wave plus random noise," Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 109-157, Jan. 1948.