New analytical expressions for the performance metrics of wireless communication system over Weibull/Lognormal composite fading

Abstract

A realistic propagation scenario is more frequently characterized by a composite multipath/shadowed fading. In this work, a class of Weibull/Lognormal (W-LN) composite fading channel has been analysed and investigated. New analytical approximations to various important performance metrics of wireless communication systems such as the average symbol error probability (SEP), the outage probability, the amount of fading (AF), and the channel capacity are derived. Further, an asymptotic analysis of the composite fading channel is carried out and closed form expressions of the average SEP with and without maximal ratio combining (MRC) diversity along with the coding and diversity gain are presented. The solutions are presented in terms of Fox H-function and are valid for both the integer and non-integer values of the multipath and shadowing parameters. The results are validated via Monte-Carlo simulations and exact numerical results.