The a - λ - μ -η: a general fading distribution

  • Authors:

  • Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos;Stavros A. Kotsopoulos;Dimitrios Zevgolis

  • Affiliations:

  • Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece;Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece;Hellenic Open University, Greece

  • Venue:
  • WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, a general fading model for wireless communications is introduced describing the nonlinearity, and at the same time the nonhomogeneous nature of the propagation medium. Namely, the a- λ - µ - η includes the a - µ', the λ - µ, the η - µ, the Gamma, the exponential, the Weibull, the Hoyt, the Nakagami-m, the Rayleigh, and the One-sided Gaussian distributions as special cases. Field measurements and Monte Carlo simulation have been used to validate the proposed distribution. An outperformance has been shown among the widely known fading distributions by fitting to the experimental data.