Analytic expressions and bounds for special functions and applications in communication theory

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7798-7823

  Sofotasios, Paschalis C ^a,b,c   Tsiftsis, Theodoros A ^d   Brychkov, Yury A ^e   Freear, Steven ^a   Valkama, Mikko ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d University of Central Greece   (Greece)

^e DORODNICYN COMPUTING CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^f KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

emerging wireless technologies; fading channels; multiantenna systems; outage probability; Special functions; truncated channel inversion; wireless communication theory

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COGNITIVE RADIO; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; HANKEL FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EMERGING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS; TRUNCATED CHANNEL INVERSIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION THEORY;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84912098015     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2014.2360388     Document Type: Article

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