Title :
A note on the estimation of Nakagami-m fading parameter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
fDate :
6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A number of previous publications address the issue of estimating the m-parameter in Nakagami fading. The purpose of this article is not to derive a new estimator; but rather, to bring to the attention of the community the fact that this issue has been solved in the literature for more than four decades. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate that none of the other proposed estimators exceeds the performance of the classical one by Greenwood and Durand (1960).
Keywords :
fading channels; gamma distribution; maximum likelihood estimation; parameter estimation; Gamma distribution; MLE; Nakagami-m fading parameter estimation; i.i.d. samples; maximum likelihood estimation; Approximation error; Equations; Fading; Government; Maximum likelihood estimation; Moment methods; Nakagami distribution; Polynomials; Robustness;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2002.1010866
