New results on the sum of Gamma random variates with application to the performance of wireless communication systems over Nakagami-m fading channels

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ansari, Imran Shafique ^a   Yilmaz, Ferkan ^a,b   Alouini, Mohamed Slim ^a   Kucur, Oğuz ^c  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Vodafone   (United States)

^c GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COPYRIGHTS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FADING CHANNELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; HIGHER ORDER DERIVATIVES; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING RECEIVERS; MEIJER'S G FUNCTIONS; NAKAGAMI-M DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 85009174498     PISSN: 21615748     EISSN: 21613915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.2912     Document Type: Article

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