Novel Representations for the Bivariate Rician Distribution

Author

Beaulieu, Norman C. ; Hemachandra, Kasun T.

Author_Institution

iCORE Wireless Commun. Lab. (iWCL), Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Volume

59

Issue

11

fYear

2011

fDate

11/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2951

Lastpage

2954

Abstract

Novel single-integral representations for the bivariate probability density function and cumulative distribution function of two correlated Rician random variables are derived. The solutions are expressed in terms of well known functions which are available in common mathematical software. The two random variables are not necessarily identically distributed as required by some past solutions. The new form of the bivariate Rician cumulative distribution function is applied to give a new expression for the outage probability of dual selection combining diversity operating in correlated Rician fading.

Keywords

Rician channels; diversity reception; probability; Rician fading; Rician random variables; bivariate Rician distribution; bivariate probability density function; cumulative distribution function; dual selection combining diversity; mathematical software; single-integral representations; Correlation; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Probability density function; Rician channels; Signal to noise ratio; Cumulative distribution function; Rician distribution; fading channels; probability density function; wireless communications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2011.092011.090171

Filename

6029350