Title: Modelling and performance evaluation over Nakagami-m/log-normal fading environments

Authors: Pappu Kumar Verma; Sanjay Kumar Soni; Priyanka Jain

Addresses: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi – 110042, India; Department of Electronics Engineering, Rajkiya Engineering College, Churk, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh – 231206, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madam Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur (UP) – 273010, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi – 110042, India

Abstract: In this paper, we present the closed-form expressions of composite Nakagami-m/log-normal (NL) fading channel by Holtzman approximation. The obtained expressions are used to derive the important performance parameters of wireless communications systems. These performance matrices are amount of fading (AF), outage probability (PO), average channel capacity (CC) and average symbol error probability (ASEP) of coherent modulation comprising binary orthogonal, antipodal, M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK) and M-ary pulse amplitude modulation (M-PAM). Furthermore, energy detection (ED) is one of the ways to determine whether the signal is present or not. The performance of ED is studied in terms of complementary receiver operating characteristics (CROC) curve. To verify the correctness of our analysis, the derived closed-form expressions are corroborated via exact result and Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords: Nakagami-m distribution; log-normal distribution; probability density function; energy detection; amount of fading; channel capacity; outage probability; closed-form expressions; fading channels.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2019.102984

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2019 Vol.23 No.4, pp.452 - 472

Received: 09 Nov 2017
Accepted: 01 Apr 2018
Published online: 14 Oct 2019 *

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