DocumentCode
828037
Title
Second-order statistics of maximal-ratio and equal-gain combining in Weibull fading
Author
Fraidenraich, Gustavo ; Yacoub, Michel D. ; Filho, José Cândido S Santos
Author_Institution
Dept. of Commun., State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil
Volume
9
Issue
6
fYear
2005
fDate
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
499
Lastpage
501
Abstract
Exact expressions for the level crossing rate and average fade duration of M-branch equal-gain and maximal-ratio combining systems in a Weibull fading environment are presented. The expressions apply to unbalanced, nonidentical, independent diversity channels. In addition, new closed-form solutions for some special cases are obtained.
Keywords
Weibull distribution; diversity reception; fading channels; M-branch equal-gain combining system; Weibull fading environment; independent diversity channel; level crossing rate expression; maximal-ratio combining system; nonidentical channel; second-order statistics; unbalanced channel; Closed-form solution; Diversity reception; Probability density function; Rayleigh channels; Reliability engineering; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Weibull distribution; Weibull fading channels; Wireless communication;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1089-7798
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LCOMM.2005.06001
Filename
1437350
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