Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis
Marvin K. Simon, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
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2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Print ISBN 0-471-31779-9 Electronic ISBN 0-471-20069-7
Digital Communication
over Fading Channels
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Digital Communication
over Fading Channels
A Unified Approach
to Performance Analysis
Marvin K. Simon
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
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Digital communication over fading channels : a unified approach to performance
analysis / Marvin K. Simon and Mohamed-Slim Alouini.
p. cm. — (Wiley series in telecommunications and signal processing)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-471-31779-9 (alk. paper)
1. Digital communications — Reliability — Mathematics. I. Alouini, Mohamed-Slim.
II. Title. III. Series.
TK5103.7.S523 2000
621.382 — dc21 99-056352
Printed in the United States of America.
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Marvin K. Simon dedicates this book to his wife, Anita,
whose devotion to him and this project
never once faded during its preparation.
Mohamed-Slim Alouini dedicates this book
to his parents and family.
Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis.
Marvin K. Simon, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Copyright
2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Print ISBN 0-471-31779-9 Electronic ISBN 0-471-20069-7
CONTENTS
Preface xv
PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
1.1 System Performance Measures 4
1.1.1 Average Signal-to-Noise Ratio 4
1.1.2 Outage Probability 5
1.1.3 Average Bit Error Probability 6
1.2 Conclusions 12
References 13
Chapter 2 Fading Channel Characterization and Modeling 15
2.1 Main Characteristics of Fading Channels 15
2.1.1 Envelope and Phase Fluctuations 15
2.1.2 Slow and Fast Fading 16
2.1.3 Frequency-Flat and Frequency-Selective
Fading 16
2.2 Modeling of Flat Fading Channels 17
2.2.1 Multipath Fading 18
2.2.2 Log-Normal Shadowing 23
2.2.3 Composite Multipath/Shadowing 24
2.2.4 Combined (Time-Shared)
Shadowed/Unshadowed Fading 25
2.3 Modeling of Frequency-Selective Fading
Channels 26
References 28
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