TY - GEN
T1 - On the sum of Gamma-Gamma variates with application to the fast outage probability evaluation over fading channels
AU - Ben Issaid, Chaouki
AU - Rached, Nadhir B.
AU - Kammoun, Abla
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
AU - Tempone, Raul
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was funded by the KAUST office of competitive research funds.
PY - 2017/5/12
Y1 - 2017/5/12
N2 - The Gamma-Gamma distribution has recently emerged in a number of applications ranging from modeling scattering and reverbation in sonar and radar systems to modeling atmospheric turbulence in wireless optical channels. In this respect, assessing the outage probability achieved by some diversity techniques over this kind of channels is of major practical importance. In many circumstances, this is intimately related to the difficult question of analyzing the statistics of a sum of Gamma-Gamma random variables. Answering this question is not a simple matter. This is essentially because outage probabilities encountered in practice are often very small, and hence the use of classical Monte Carlo methods is not a reasonable choice. This lies behind the main motivation of the present work. In particular, this paper proposes a new approach to estimate the left tail of the sum of independent and identically distributed Gamma-Gamma variates. More specifically, we propose a mean-shift importance sampling scheme that efficiently evaluates the outage probability of L-branch maximum ratio combining diversity receivers over Gamma-Gamma fading channels. The proposed estimator satisfies the well-known bounded relative error criterion. We show the accuracy and the efficiency of our approach compared to naive Monte Carlo via some selected numerical simulations.
AB - The Gamma-Gamma distribution has recently emerged in a number of applications ranging from modeling scattering and reverbation in sonar and radar systems to modeling atmospheric turbulence in wireless optical channels. In this respect, assessing the outage probability achieved by some diversity techniques over this kind of channels is of major practical importance. In many circumstances, this is intimately related to the difficult question of analyzing the statistics of a sum of Gamma-Gamma random variables. Answering this question is not a simple matter. This is essentially because outage probabilities encountered in practice are often very small, and hence the use of classical Monte Carlo methods is not a reasonable choice. This lies behind the main motivation of the present work. In particular, this paper proposes a new approach to estimate the left tail of the sum of independent and identically distributed Gamma-Gamma variates. More specifically, we propose a mean-shift importance sampling scheme that efficiently evaluates the outage probability of L-branch maximum ratio combining diversity receivers over Gamma-Gamma fading channels. The proposed estimator satisfies the well-known bounded relative error criterion. We show the accuracy and the efficiency of our approach compared to naive Monte Carlo via some selected numerical simulations.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623755
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7905796/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019226829&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2016.7905796
DO - 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2016.7905796
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781509045457
SP - 25
EP - 29
BT - 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -