The Rayleigh Birnbaum Saunders Distribution: A General Fading Model

Abstract

A new compound non-symmetric distribution for modeling arbitrary fading-shadowing wireless channels is introduced and studied here. This distribution has some advantages in front of other well-known non-symmetric fading distributions such as the Rayleigh–lognormal distribution and the K distribution especially in the tails. We give closed-form expressions for the average BER of DPSK and MSK when the new distribution is used. Applications to compare how the new distribution works in comparisons with the Rayleigh–lognormal, K distributions and others recently proposed in the literature of fading channel are also provided.