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Bounds on the Lambert function and their application to the outage analysis of user cooperation

Information Theory 2016-01-20 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Problems formulated in terms of logarithmic or exponential equations often use the Lambert WW function in their solutions. Expansions, approximations and bounds on WW have been derived in an effort to gain a better understanding of the relationship between equation parameters. In this paper, we focus on one of the branches of WW, denoted as W1W_{-1}, we derive tractable upper and lower bounds and we illustrate their usefulness in identifying conditions under which user cooperation can yield a lower outage probability than non-cooperative transmission.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04895,
  title  = {Bounds on the Lambert function and their application to the outage analysis of user cooperation},
  author = {Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04895},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters