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| Author(s): |
Daniel Benevides da Costa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2008-06-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Michel Daoud Yacoub;
Humberto Abdalla Junior;
Silvio Ernesto Barbin;
Helio Waldman;
Paulo Cardieri
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| Advisor: | Michel Daoud Yacoub |
| Abstract | |
Recently, three new channel models, a-u, ?-u and ?-u, were proposed with the aim to provide a more realistic analysis of the propagate signal. Due to they have one degree of freedom more than those already existing in the literature, a better adjust to field measurement data was attested with their use. This thesis deals with the statistical characterization of these generalized fading models. Such a characterization includes both first and second order statistics. Simple and precise approximations to the sum of random variables and processes are proposed. Several performance metrics in scenarios with and without diversity are investigated in an exact and approximate manner. Among them, we may cite: outage probability, bit error probability, channel capacity, level crossing rate, average fade duration, such others. Furthermore, it is shown what is the generalized distribution that better approximate the sum of Nakagami-m variates and processes, once that all of them include Nakagami-m as special case. Finally, exact and approximate expressions for the crossing rates of non-identical correlated Weibull channels in multibranch receivers are presented. (AU) | |