RT Journal Article
T1 The κ-µ Shadowed Fading Model with Integer Fading Parameters
A1 López-Martínez, Francisco Javier
A1 París-Ángel, José Francisco
A1 Romero-Jerez, Juan Manuel
K1 Ondas electromagnéticas -- Propagación
AB We show that the popular and general κ-μ shadowed fading model with integer fading parameters μ and m can be represented as a mixture of squared Nakagami- m̂  (or Gamma) distributions. Thus, its PDF and CDF can be expressed in closed-form in terms of a finite number of elementary functions (powers and exponentials). The main implications arising from such connection are then discussed, which can be summarized as: (1) the performance evaluation of communication systems operating in κ-μ shadowed fading becomes as simple as if a Nakagami- m̂  fading channel was assumed; (2) the κ-μ shadowed distribution can be used to approximate the κ-μ distribution using a closed-form representation in terms of elementary functions, by choosing a sufficiently large value of m; and (3) restricting the parameters μ and m to take integer values has limited impact in practice when fitting the κ-μ shadowed fading model to field measurements. As an application example, the average channel capacity of communication systems operating under κ-μ shadowed fading is obtained in closed-form.
PB IEEE
SN 0018-9545
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14390
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14390
LA eng
NO DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2017.2678430
NO (c) 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is  permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2017.2678430
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional. Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026