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Wideband Ultrasonic Acoustic Underwater Channels: Measurements and Characterization
Jesús López-Fernández, Unai Fernández-Plazaola, José F. París +2
In this work we present the results of a measurement campaign carried out in the Mediterranean sea aimed at characterizing the underwater acoustic channel in a wideband at ultrason…
The Multi-cluster Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model
José David Vega Sánchez, F. Javier López-Martínez, José F. Paris +1
We introduce a new class of fading channels, built as the superposition of two fluctuating specular components with random phases, plus a clustering of scattered waves: the Multi-c…
The Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model with Independent Specular Components
Maryam Olyaee, José A. Cortés, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez +2
We introduce and characterize the independent fluctuating two-ray (IFTR) fading model, a class of fading models consisting of two specular components which fluctuate independently,…
Unveiling the Hyper-Rayleigh Regime of the Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model
Celia Garcia-Corrales, Unai Fernandez-Plazaola, Francisco J. Cañete +2
The recently proposed Fluctuating Two-Ray (FTR) model is gaining momentum as a reference fading model in scenarios where two dominant specular waves are present. Despite the numero…
A New Approach to the Statistical Analysis of Non-Central Complex Gaussian Quadratic Forms with Applications
Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa, Laureano Moreno-Pozas, José F. Paris +2
This paper proposes a novel approach to the statistical characterization of non-central complex Gaussian quadratic forms (CGQFs). Its key strategy is the generation of an auxiliary…
A Tractable Product Channel Model for Line-of-Sight Scenarios
Unai Fernandez-Plazaola, Laureano Moreno-Pozas, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez +3
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 - shadowed…
An Extension of the κ-μShadowed Fading Model: Statistical Characterization and Applications
Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez, Jose F. Paris +2
We here introduce an extension and natural generalization of both the κ-μshadowed and the classical Beckmann fading models: the Fluctuating Beckmann (FB) fading model. This new…
Bivariate Rician shadowed fading model
J. Lopez-Fernandez, J. F. Paris, E. Martos-Naya
In this paper we present a bivariate Rician shadowed fading model where the shadowing is assumed to follow a Nakagami- distribution. We derive exact expressions involving a sing…
The Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model: Statistical Characterization and Performance Analysis
Juan M. Romero-Jerez, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez, José F. Paris +1
We introduce the Fluctuating Two-Ray (FTR) fading model, a new statistical channel model that consists of two fluctuating specular components with random phases plus a diffuse comp…
A Comprehensive Analysis of 5G Heterogeneous Cellular Systems operating over - Shadowed Fading Channels
Young Jin Chun, Simon L. Cotton, Harpreet S. Dhillon +3
Emerging cellular technologies such as those proposed for use in 5G communications will accommodate a wide range of usage scenarios with diverse link requirements. This will includ…
The κ-μ Shadowed Fading Model with Integer Fading Parameters
F. Javier Lopez-Martinez, Jose F. Paris, Juan M. Romero-Jerez
We show that the popular and general κ-μ shad- owed fading model with integer fading parameters μ and m can be represented as a mixture of squared Nakagami (or Gamma) distributions…
On the Calculation of the Incomplete MGF with Applications to Wireless Communications
F. J. Lopez-Martinez, J. M. Romero-Jerez, J. F. Paris
The incomplete moment generating function (IMGF) has paramount relevance in communication theory, since it appears in a plethora of scenarios when analyzing the performance of comm…
The - Shadowed Fading Model: Unifying the - and - Distributions
Laureano Moreno-Pozas, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez, José F. Paris +1
This paper shows that the recently proposed - shadowed fading model includes, besides the - model, the - fading model as a particular case. This has important rel…
Eigenvalue Dynamics of a Central Wishart Matrix with Application to MIMO Systems
F. Javier Lopez-Martinez, Eduardo Martos-Naya, Jose F. Paris +1
We investigate the dynamic behavior of the stationary random process defined by a central complex Wishart (CW) matrix as it varies along a certain dimension . We c…
Statistical characterization of kappa-mu shadowed fading
J. F. Paris
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 c…
Connections between the Generalized Marcum Q-Function and a class of Hypergeometric Functions
D. Morales-Jimenez, F. J. Lopez-Martinez, E. Martos-Naya +2
This paper presents a new connection between the generalized Marcum-Q function and the confluent hypergeometric function of two variables, phi3. This result is then applied to the…
Comments on Proakis Analysis of the Characteristic Function of Complex Gaussian Quadratic Forms
Unai Fernández-Plazaola, Eduardo Martos-Naya, José F. Paris +1
An analysis of the characteristic function of Gaussian quadratic forms is presented in [1] to study the performance of multichannel communication systems. This technical report rev…
On the Bivariate Nakagami- Cumulative Distribution Function: Closed-form Expression and Applications
F. J. Lopez-Martinez, D. Morales-Jimenez, E. Martos-Naya +1
In this paper, we derive exact closed-form expressions for the bivariate Nakagami- cumulative distribution function (CDF) with positive integer fading severity index in term…
Ricean Shadowed Statistical Characterization of Shallow Water Acoustic Channels for Wireless Communications
F. Ruiz-Vega, M. C. Clemente, P. Otero +1
In this letter, the statistical behaviour of the shallow water acoustic channel for wireless communications is shown to be well characterized by the Ricean shadowed distribution, w…
A Note on the Sum of Correlated Gamma Random Variables
Jose F. Paris
The sum of correlated gamma random variables appears in the analysis of many wireless communications systems, e.g. in systems under Nakagami-m fading. In this Letter we obtain exac…
Unified Analysis of the Average Gaussian Error Probability for a Class of Fading Channels
Jose F. Paris
This paper focuses on the analysis of average Gaussian error probabilities in certain fading channels, i.e. we are interested in E[Q((p γ)^(1/2))] where Q(.) is the Gaussian Q-func…
Outage Probability in η-μ/η-μ Interference-limited Scenarios
Jose F. Paris
In this paper exact closed-form expressions are derived for the outage probability (OP) in scenarios where both the signal of interest (SOI) and the interfering signals experience…
A Unifying Statistical Model for Atmospheric Optical Scintillation
Antonio Jurado-Navas, José María Garrido-Balsells, José Francisco Paris +1
In this paper we develop a new statistical model for the irradiance fluctuations of an unbounded optical wavefront (plane and spherical waves) propagating through a turbulent mediu…