Performance Comparison of Three Different Estimators for the Nakagami m Parameter Using Monte Carlo Simulation

Ali Abdi; Mostafa Kaveh

doi:10.1109/4234.841316

Performance Comparison of Three Different Estimators for the Nakagami m Parameter Using Monte Carlo Simulation

Ali Abdi, Mostafa Kaveh

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Abstract

Nakagami distribution has proven useful for modeling multipath faded envelope in wireless channels. The shape parameter of the Nakagami distribution, known as the m parameter, can be estimated in different ways. In this contribution, the performance of the inverse normalized variance, Tolparev-Polyakov, and the Lorenz estimators have been compared through Monte Carlo simulation, and it has been observed that the inverse normalized variance estimator is superior to the others over a broad range of m values.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	119-121
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Communications Letters
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/4234.841316
State	Published - Apr 2000

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Manuscript received August 9, 1999. The associate editor coordinating the review of this letter and approving it for publication was Prof. N. C. Beaulieu. This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under the Wireless Initiative Program, Grant 9979443.

Keywords

Fading channels
Monte Carlo simulation
Multipath fading
Nakagami distribution
Parameter estimation
Wireless channels

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