DocumentCode
1051294
Title
Nakagami-m approximation to the sum of M non-identical independent Nakagami-m variates
Author
Filho, J.C.S.S. ; Yacoub, M.D.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Commun., State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil
Volume
40
Issue
15
fYear
2004
fDate
7/22/2004 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
951
Lastpage
952
Abstract
A Nakagami-m approximate distribution to the sum of M non-identical independent Nakagami-m variates is derived. Comparisons between exact and approximate sum distributions show excellent agreement. This new approach finds applicability in important communications issues such as equal-gain combining, signal detection, linear equalisers, outage probability, intersymbol interference and phase jitter.
Keywords
approximation theory; fading channels; statistical distributions; Nakagami-m approximation; approximate sum distributions; equal gain combination; exact sum distributions; fading channels; intersymbol interference; linear equalisers; nonidentical independent Nakagami-m variates; outage probability; phase jitter; signal detection; statistical distributions;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20045104
Filename
1318888
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