Performance of digital linear modulations on Weibull slow-fading channels

Author

Cheng, Julian ; Tellambura, Chinthananda ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

52

Issue

8

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1265

Lastpage

1268

Abstract

A closed-form expression is derived for the moment-generating function of the Weibull distribution, valid when its fading parameter assumes integer values. Expressions for average signal-to-noise ratio, signal outage, and average symbol-error rate are derived for single-channel reception and independent multichannel diversity reception operating on flat Weibull slow-fading channels.

Keywords

Weibull distribution; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; modulation; Laplace transforms; Weibull distribution; Weibull slow-fading channel; digital linear modulation; fading parameters; independent multichannel diversity reception; moment-generating function; signal outage; signal-to-noise ratio; single-channel reception; symbol-error rate; Closed-form solution; Digital communication; Digital modulation; Diversity reception; Helium; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Vehicular and wireless technologies; Weibull distribution; Weibull fading channels; Error analysis; Laplace transforms; Weibull distributions; fading channels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2004.833015

Filename

1327841