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In this paper, we analyse the joint impact of pathloss, shadowing and fast fading on wireless networks. Taking into account the pathloss and the shadowing, we first express the SINR distribution of a mobile located at a given distance from…
In this paper, a novel gamma-shadowed two-ray with diffuse power (GS-TWDP) composite fading model is proposed. The model is intended for modeling propagation in the emerging wireless networks working at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies,…
Shadowing is believed to degrade the quality of service (QoS) in wireless cellular networks. Assuming log-normal shadowing, and studying mobile's path-loss with respect to the serving base station (BS) and the corresponding interference…
This work is devoted to the formulation and derivation of the $\eta{-}\mu{/}$gamma and $\lambda{-}\mu{/}$gamma distributions which correspond to physical fading models. These distributions are composite and are based on the $\eta-\mu$ and…
This work is devoted to the formulation and derivation of the $\kappa-\mu$/gamma distribution which corresponds to A physical fading model. This distribution is composite and is based on the well known $\kappa-\mu$ generalized multipath…
We present a general and tractable fading model for line-of-sight (LOS) scenarios, which is based on the product of two independent and non-identically distributed $\kappa$-$\mu$ shadowed random variables. Simple closed-form expressions for…
This work studies the product and ratio statistics of independent and non-identically distributed (i.n.i.d) $ \alpha-\kappa - \mu $ shadowed random variables. We derive the series expression for the probability density function (PDF),…
This work is devoted to the formulation and derivation of the $\alpha{-}\kappa{-}\mu{/}$gamma distribution which corresponds to a physical fading model. The proposed distribution is composite and is constituted by the…
This paper shows that the recently proposed $\kappa$-$\mu$ shadowed fading model includes, besides the $\kappa$-$\mu$ model, the $\eta$-$\mu$ fading model as a particular case. This has important relevance in practice, as it allows for the…
Two-ray ground reflection model has been widely used as the propagation model to investigate the performance of an ad hoc network. But two-ray model is too simple to represent a real world network. A more realistic model namely shadowing…
We introduce a general approach to characterize composite fading models based on inverse gamma (IG) shadowing. We first determine to what extent the IG distribution is an adequate choice for modeling shadow fading, by means of a…
This paper investigates a natural generalization of the kappa-mu fading channel in which the line-of-sight (LOS) component is subject to shadowing. This fading distribution has a clear physical interpretation, good analytical properties and…
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…
In this paper, the effects of interference on composite fading environments, where multipath fading coexists with shadowing, are investigated. Based on some mathematical convenient expressions for the sum of squared…
In this paper, a transmit antenna selection scheme, which is based on shadowing side information, is investigated. In this scheme, the selected single transmit antenna provides the highest shadowing coefficient between transmitter and…
Energy detection is a reliable non-coherent signal processing technology of spectrum sensing of cognitive radio networks, which thanks to its low complexity, no requirement of priori received information and fast sensing ability etc. Since…
Statistical characterization of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) via its cumulative distribution function (CDF) is ubiquitous in a vast majority of technical contributions in the area of cellular networks since it boils…
We show that the popular and general {\kappa}-{\mu} shad- owed fading model with integer fading parameters {\mu} and m can be represented as a mixture of squared Nakagami (or Gamma) distributions. Thus, its PDF and CDF can be expressed in…
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…
Sums of lognormal random variables (RVs) occur in many important problems in wireless communications especially in interferences calculation. Several methods have been proposed to approximate the lognormal sum distribution. Most of them…