A Unified Effective Capacity Performance Analysis of Lp-norm Diversity Reception over Arbitrary and Correlated Generalized Fading Channels

K. Denia Kanellopoulou, Kostas P. Peppas, P. Takis Mathiopoulos

The effective capacity (EC) has been recently established as a rigorous alternative to the classical Shannon's ergodic capacity since it accounts for the delay constraints imposed…