Weibull fading explained

Weibull fading, named after Waloddi Weibull, is a simple statistical model of fading used in wireless communications and based on the Weibull distribution. Empirical studies have shown it to be an effective model in both indoor^[1] and outdoor^[2] environments.

In 2005, a theoretical model for a particular class of Weibull distributions was described by Sagias and Karagiannidis,^[3] who also analyzed channel capacity of a wireless channel in the presence of Weibull fading.^[4]

References

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3. 10.1109/TIT.2005.855598. Gaussian Class Multivariate Weibull Distributions: Theory and Applications in Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 51. 10. 3608–3619. 2005. Sagias. N.C.. Karagiannidis. G.K.. 14654176 .
4. 10.1109/LCOMM.2004.831319. Channel Capacity and Second-Order Statistics in Weibull Fading. IEEE Communications Letters. 8. 6. 377–379. 2004. Sagias. N.C.. Zogas. D.A.. Karagiannidis. G.K.. Tombras. G.S.. 3996021 .

• Book: 10.1109/pimrc.2002.1047298. The α-μ distribution: A general fading distribution. The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. 2. 629–633. 2002. Daoud Yacoub. M.. 0-7803-7589-0.