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The secrecy outage performance of wireless communication systems operating over spatially correlated composite fading channels is analyzed in this paper. We adopt a multiplicative composite channel model for both the legitimate…
This work studies and optimizes the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided networks in Nakagami-m fading environment. First, accurate closed-form approximations for the channel distributions are derived. Then,…
In this paper, we derive exact closed-form expressions for the bivariate Nakagami-$m$ cumulative distribution function (CDF) with positive integer fading severity index $m$ in terms of a class of hypergeometric functions. Particularly, we…
We report the similarity between the Nakagami-m fading distribution and the three Gaussian ensembles of random matrix theory. We provide a brief review of random matrix theory and wireless fading. We show that the Nakagami-m distribution…
The Lognormal distribution is a fundamental statistical model widely used in different fields of science, including biology, finance, economics, engineering, etc. In wireless communications, it is the primary statistic for large-scale…
By recognizing the tremendous flexibility of the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS), which allows dynamic reconfigurability of the location of the antenna within a given space, this paper investigates the performance of a single-antenna…
The performance of $L$-branch scan-and-wait combining (SWC) reception systems over arbitrarily correlated and not necessarily identically distributed Nakagami-$m$ fading channels is analyzed and evaluated. Firstly, a fast convergent…
In this paper, we propose a mixture Gamma shadowed (MGS) distribution as a unified composite model via representing the shadowing by an inverse Nakagami-$m$. Accordingly, the exact expression and the asymptotic behaviour at high average…
In this paper, we study the performance of wireless communications empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RISs) over Nakagami-m fading channels. We consider two phase configuration designs for the RIS, one random and another one…