On efficacy of Rayleigh‐inverse Gaussian distribution over K‐distribution for wireless fading channels
- 9 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
- Vol. 7 (1) , 1-7
Abstract
For studying performance characteristics of radio channels, the knowledge about the probability density function (pdf) of fading–shadowing effects is essential. K‐distribution corresponding to Rayleigh–gamma distribution (RGD) is widely used to approximate a more realistic Rayleigh–lognormal distribution (RLD) which does not have a closed form expression. A new composite Rayleigh‐inverse Gaussian distribution (RIGD), an alternative to K‐distribution, is analyzed with regards to its suitability and effectiveness in radio channels. Detailed investigations are made to study the performance characteristics of RIGD and K‐distribution (RGD) in terms of Kullback–Leibler (KL) measure of divergence. Based on these investigations, it is found that RIGD is better suited for capturing fading–shadowing aspects of radio channels instead of K‐distribution. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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