Fade Duration Distribution and Minimum Duration Outage in Weibull Fading Channels

Author

Wang, Miao ; Liu, Qiuyan ; Zhong, Zhangdui ; Chen, Xia

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Rail Traffic Control & Safety, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

During almost fifty years, fade duration distribution (FDD) of random signals has been an open research topic. However, for Weibull fading channels, closed form solutions are still unknown. Minimum duration outage (MDO) definition is decisive to complement the traditional outage concept and it has been reported, up to now, only for Log-normal shadowing, Rayleigh fading and Nakagami fading. In this paper, FDD and MDO in Weibull channels are studied. By utilizing the relation between Weibull distribution and Rayleigh distribution, analytical results are derived for FDD as well as the performance measures under MDO principle such as frequency of outage, average duration of outage, and probability of outage. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the analytical results.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Weibull distribution; FDD; MDO; Nakagami fading; Rayleigh distribution; Rayleigh fading; Weibull distribution; Weibull fading channels; fade duration distribution; log-normal shadowing; minimum duration outage; outage duration; outage frequency; outage probability; Doppler effect; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Nakagami distribution; Rayleigh channels; Weibull fading channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8332-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956463

Filename

5956463