F. Vatalaro et Ge. Corazza, PROBABILITY OF ERROR AND OUTAGE IN A RICE-LOGNORMAL CHANNEL FOR TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE transactions on communications, 44(8), 1996, pp. 921-924
This letter addresses performance evaluation in a nonselective fading
channel modeled by a combination of Rice and lognormal (RLN) statistic
s, The RLN model is valid under widely different environmental conditi
ons, both for terrestrial cellular and for satellite personal communic
ation systems, The letter provides semianalytical expressions for the
average error probability in the RLN channel for coherent M-ary phase
shift keying (PSK) and noncoherent M-ary orthogonal transmissions, the
n it highlights the relationship between outage probability and cell c
overage for macro and microcellular systems, and finally it provides s
ome error probability results for nongeostationary (non-GEO) satellite
systems.