A comparative study of two shadow fading models in ultrawideband and other wireless systems

Ali Abdi; Mostafa Kaveh

doi:10.1109/TWC.2011.031611.100309

A comparative study of two shadow fading models in ultrawideband and other wireless systems

Ali Abdi, Mostafa Kaveh

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

The distribution of the local average power at a mobile is usually considered to be lognormal in terrestrial and satellite channels. However, the mathematical form of the lognormal distribution is not convenient for analytic calculations. In this paper, we show the utility of the gamma distribution for shadow fading, in both terrestrial and satellite channels, using empirical data. Furthermore, we show that the application of the gamma model of shadow fading results in closed-form and mathematically-tractable solutions for key system performance measures such as the average symbol error rate of different modulations with a variety of diversity combining techniques.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5739088
Pages (from-to)	1428-1434
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	10
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2011.031611.100309
State	Published - May 2011

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Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics

Keywords

Shadow fading
fading channels
gamma distribution
large-scale fading
lognormal distribution
performance analysis
shadowing

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