Multivariate Rayleigh, Rice, and Nakagami distributions and their applications in communication theory

Abstract

A method was developed to calculate the symbol and bit error probabilities for coherent diversity reception of multi-position signal structures in a communication channel with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and general fading described by the multivariate Rayleigh and Nakagami distributions, as well as the bivariate Rice distribution.

Keywords

• multivariate rayleigh distribution
• multivariate nakagami distribution
• bivariate rice distribution
• fading
• potential noise immunity
• special function
• owen function